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Amaurornis bicolor. 



Amaurornis bicolor (Walden) ; Blaiiford, Fauna, iv. 1898, 

 p. 171 ; Hariugtou, Bombay Journ. xx. 1910, p. 378. 



Major Taiicock, R.A., obtained the first record of the 

 occurrence of Elwes' Crake iu Burma, procuring a nest and 

 six eggs, together with the parent bird, at Sinlum on the 

 9th of May, 1909. 



When up at Sinlum on the 29th of May, 1905, whilst oiit 

 birds'-nesting, my spaniel put up a Bamboo Partridge, 

 Bambusicola fytchii, out of a small swamp. As the bird was 

 extremely noisy, both before nnd after it got up, I felt certain 

 that there must be a nest, so marking the spot, which was 

 within a few feet of me, I told a Kachin, who was out with me, 

 to look carefully — sure enough he found a nest, and brought 

 out four unmistakable rail's eggs, which were quite warm. 

 Together with the dog, Ave carefully hunted that sAvamp, 

 which Avas' only a few feet in diameter, without putting up 

 another bird. Whether the Partridge only happened to be 

 near the nest, or had usurped it, I cannot say, but the fact 

 remains that the bird got up at the exact spot Avhere the nest 

 Avas found. These eggs puzzled me for a long time ; they 

 are, howcA^er, exactly similar to Major Tancock's, and others 

 I have received from Assam, where, I believe, A. bicolor nests 

 freely in the Khasia Hills. At Christmas-time, 1909, I pro- 

 cured other specimens of A. bicolor at Sinlum, so it is 

 evidently a resident and non-migratory species, inhabiting 

 the small bogs and swamps in the Kachin Hills. 



Arboricola brunneipectus. 



Arhoricola brunneipectus Tickell ; Blanford, Fauna, iv. 

 1898, p. 128. 



My Burman collector found a nest containing four eggs 

 of the Brown-breasted Hill Partridge at Toukchan, near 

 E/angoon, on the 5th of June, 1907, procuring a bird near 

 the same sj)ot, so that I think there is little doubt that 

 the eggs belong to this species, the only Hill Partridge occur- 

 ring near Rangoon. These are a clear white Avith very little 



