Ropinson & Kuoss : Birds of West Sumatra. 203 
Wings, ¢ 128, 142, 137, 140, 143, 133, 140, 140, 133 mm,,. 
136 mm. 
@ 128, 127, 128, 131, 138, 127, 132, 136, 133, 129 mm. 
In this series the black markings on the back and 
underparts of the females are much heavier and more 
extensive than in the males while the foreneck is largely 
black against a foreneck largely white in the male. 
Description of the chick :— 
@ pull. Sungei Kumbang, 30th August, 1915, 
No. 5028. 
Above chocolate, the crown and rump more reddish, 
forehead and a long supercilary stripe to the sides of the 
neck, mixed blackish and silvery on the sides of the neck, 
beneath this silvery stripe a sooty black patch. Beneath 
white, a broad pectoral band reddish chocolate, thighs 
reddish chocolate, wing coverts tipped with buff. 
Iris dark grey, bill black, base of HOW Tei mandible and 
at the tomia red, feet dull orange. 
The chick when caught was extremely alert, much 
more than the chickens of the domesticated fowl. 
The birds are always found in pairs or small coveys ; 
they are easily caught in snares. The snares used in Korin- 
chi are made of the fibres of Arenga saccharifera Labill., 
and consist of a string of about one metre with some twenty 
nooses attached to it. The string is fastened horizontally 
near the ground across a path in the jungle and then the 
call of the bird is imitated. 
This call sounds like : 
The birds in the vicinity at once answer to the call, 
at the same time approaching more and more. When they 
have come very near, they utter a different call 
sounding like : 
At last one of the birds runs into the snare, and when 
it struggles in the noose its mate will usually come to its 
