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Western Bhutan, but appears to be replaced in extreme South- 

 Eastern Tibet by tihetanus. Northwards it is at present unknown 

 how far it extends, but I have long had records of the existence 

 of a Blood Pheasant in ths Chambi Valley, and have recently 

 received from that Valley, skins of specimens shot and trapped off 

 their nests which are quite typical cruentiis. 



Southwards in Nepal it is only found on the higher spurs, running 

 from the main ridge, keeping, according to Hooker, between 10,000 

 feet and 14,000 feet, but probably descending to 8,000 feet in the 

 winter. 



In Sikhim it is found as far South as the Singalila Range, and 

 perhaps even further South on the Damsang Range, North-West of 

 Darjiling, whence I have received the nest of an Horornis, contain- 

 ing the feathers of a Blood Pheasant. 



Oustalet's and Ingram's record of this bird as occurring in 

 Yunnan is undoubtedly -incorrect, and the bird referred to is 

 Ithac/enes huseri. 



NidifiecUion. — The onlj^ note hitherto recorded, is that of 

 Hodgson, who writes : 



" The nest is placed on the ground amongst the grass and 

 "bushes, a loose nest of grass and leaves. The eggs, ten to 

 "twelve in number, are laid towards the end of April and in 

 "May, and the young are ready to fly in July. Only the 

 " mother feeds and cares for the young." 



I have never taken the eggs myself, but in 1910 a European col- 

 lector, who was working for me in Sikhim, sent me twelve eggs, 

 which he said were those of the Blood Pheasant. He informed me 

 that he had failed to trap the old birds, but had distinctly seen both 

 male and female of the two nests from which they were taken, and 

 that there was no doubt about them. 



The two nests were taken in the first week of May 1910, at an 

 elevation of about 12,000 feet in Native Sikhim, and were placed 

 at the foot of bushes growing in stunted pine forest. There was no 

 real nest, the eggs being laid on a thick bed of leaves and rubbish 

 which had accumulated in a natural hollow. 



The eggs were extraordinarily like eggs of the Grey Hen, though 

 paler and redder, and cpiite indistinguishable from those of It/iagenes 

 huseri and Ithacjenes geoffroi/i, the latter of which are described and 

 depicted in the Catalogue of the Eggs of the British Museum. Un- 

 fortunately, at the time these were taken, I did not know what the 

 eggs of the genus Ithacjenes were like, and a dealer in Darjiling, 

 having recently sold a collection of European Game and Water- 

 Birds' eggs, I was afraid to accept my collector's identification as 

 beyond doubt, and returned him these eggs to do what he liked with. 



This year, 1915, Mr. D. Macdonald succeeded in obtaining for 

 me a pair of birds which were both trapped on the nest on the 28th 



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