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Nidification. — I can find nothing beyond what is recorded in 

 Hume's Nests and Eggs. 



From Aboo Dr. King writes to me : — 



" This species is common at Aboo in the valleys, 

 " ranging as high as 4,000 feet, but is most plentiful from 

 " about 1,500 to 3,000 feet above the sea. It prefers 

 " dense jungle about nullahs, and where there is a thick 

 " undergrowth and especially where there is much bamboo. 

 " I never took the nest myself, but its eggs were 

 " brought to me in the early part of May, and my shikaris 

 " and the Bheels emploj^ed said that the nests were flat and 

 " shallow, composed of diVj bamboo leaves placed under, or 

 " even in the middle of, clumps of bamboo, in the deeper 

 "valleys." 

 Col. Butler also wrote : — 



" The Red Spur-Fowl is common all along the 



" Aravallis. It is usually found singly or in pairs, and 



"breeds like the last species during the hot weather, but 



" I have often seen the chicks with the old birds after they 



" have been hatched in May and June." 



I have not seen enough of these eggs to say whether they vary 



in size from those of the other races, but otherwise they are, of 



course, quite indistinguishable. 



A pair in the British Museum measure 46"2x32-6mm., and 

 44' 7 X 31 "5 mm. and a clutch of 3 in my own collection taken 

 by Mr. Vidal measure 35-8 x 27-0 mm., 35*6 x 26-8 mm. 

 and 36*5 x 26*4 mm. These are almost certainly abnormally 

 small. 



General Habits. — Like those of G. s. spadicea, but the Aravalli 

 Spur-Fowl is less of a dense forest and thick jungle haunter than 

 is that bird, and may be foiind more often in comparatively open 

 forests and thin iungle. 



It inhabits a country of comparatively small rain-fall, and 

 less luxuriant vegetation hence its pale colouration. It is very 

 common throughout the Aravalli Hills and the lower hills in 

 Udaipur. 



Col. Butler says that it is " common all along the Aravallis. It 

 is usually found singly or in pairs and breeds during the hot 

 weather. " 



GaLLOPERDIX LUNULATA. 



The Painted Spur-Fowl. 



Curria Partridge, — ^Lath., Gen. Hist, viii., p. 270 (1823) (India). 



Perdix lunulata, — Valenc. & Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxviii., p. 446 (1825) 

 (Bengal) ; Gray in Griffiths, ed. Cuv. iii., p. 48 (1829) (Bengal) ; Lesson, 

 Traite, d'Orn, p. 504 (1831). 



