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Irwin has shown {in loc. cit.) that the surroundings of Bangkok 

 are not at all the kind of country which this Partridge would choose 

 for itself, all the higher ground having been artificially raised, and 

 the remainder subject to flooding. At the same time Schomburgh, 

 Swinhoe , Ricketts and others have all written about its frequenting, 

 and being shot in rice fields. Possibly they only refer to these fields 

 after the water has dried up, and when the paddy is more or less 

 ripe, but they do not say so, and one always thinks of a rice field as 

 €1 very wet place indeed. 



The cry is a loud musical succession of notes of rather the same 

 character as that of the Black Partridge, but easily distinguished 

 from it. It has been syllabised as " ke-kai ke-kai " '' ke-karr " by 

 Swinhoe, and as " Hing puh tiy yay, koko " (it is no use my brother) 

 by the Chinese. 



Oates refers to this bird's affection for bamboo jungle : he says — 



" This Francolin is rarely to be found in stubble, and I do not 



" remember finding more than two birds in such ground in the 



" course of three or four years' experience. On the other hand, 



" almost every bamboo-clad hill side, if well beaten, will yield 



" 5 or 6 birds. The bird is very loth to fly, and runs before the 



" beaters till want of cover compels it to take to the air, and 



" even when thus flushed, it will descend to the ground as soon 



■" as possible. The flight is very strong, and a bird on the 



" wing affords a very pretty shot." 



Although common almost everywhere in suitable country, it is 



;no where numerous enough to make its sole pursuit an object of a 



'day's shooting, and though Mackenzie, Hop wood, Wickham, Haring- 



ton and others have shot many, they have generally formed part of 



a miscellaneous bag or odd birds shot on the march from one camp 



to another. 



I have seen no hybrids between this bird, and the Black Francolin, 

 but one would expect such to occur in South Manipur or the North 

 ■Chin Hills, where the two species meet. 



Feancolinus gulaeis. 



The Kyah or Marsh Partridge. 



Wood Partridge.— L&th, Gen. Hist. VIII, p. 299 (1823). 



Perdix gularis. —Temm, Pig. et Gal., Ill, p. 401, 731 (1815) ; Gray, III, 

 Ind. Zool., I., pi. 56, fig. 1. (1830-32) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, p. 251 

 (1849). 



Perdix monogrammica. — ^Less., Trait d'Orn., p. 504 (1831). 



Francolinus gularis. — Gray, List Gall. B., III., p. 34 (1831) ; Hodg., in Gray's 

 Zool, Misc, p. 85 (1844) (Nepal); Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis., 1892, p. 46 ; id.. Cat. B. M, 

 XXII., p. 158 (1893); id. Man. Game-B. I., p. 122 (1895) ; Oates, Man. Game-B. 

 I., p. 174 (1898) ; Blanf., Fauna, B. I. Aves., IV. p. 141, (1898); id., Cat. Eggs, 



