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flcation of the Lineated Pheasant in the couatry between Thayetmyo 

 and Tonghoo in Burma : — 



" The breeding-season begins about the ] st March, and by tbe 

 end of the month all the hens have commenced laying. 



" The female makes no nest, but chooses a hollow on a bank-side, 

 generally at the foot of a bamboo-clump. The dead leaves, which 

 have accumulated to the depth of three or four inches, are hollo wed 

 out by the bird, not purposely I think, but merely by the pressure 

 of the bird's body. The first nest I found in 1871 contained six 

 fresh eggs : this was on the 24th March. The second nest, found 

 on the 8th April, contained seven eggs slightly incubated. The 

 extreme dimensions of fifteen eggs were 1'75 to 1'95 in length and 

 1"4 to 1-5 in breadth. 



" A third nest, found on the 15th April, 1873, contained seven 

 eggs hard-seb." 



Major Bingham found a nest in Tenasserim with seven eggs on 

 the 16th March. The nest was a small hollow that had been 

 scratched in the ground and was lined with leaves and a few 

 feathers. 



The eggs are of the ordinary hen's egg type. They have a rather 

 fine shell (the pores, however, being very numerous), but scarcely 

 any perceptible gloss. They have no markings or spottings, but 

 are of a uniform, rather rich, cafi-avAait colour^ 



Gallus ferrugineus (Gmel.). The Red Jungle-fowl. 



Gallus ferrugineus, Om., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 536 ; Hume, Rough 

 Braft N.l^E. no. 812. 



The Eed Jungle-fowl is, as its name imports, a true denizen of 

 the jungle, and most especially of jungle in th(,' vicinity of scattered 

 cultivation, at or near the bases of hills, which keep it compara- 

 tively well watered throughout the year. \ 



It breeds within our limits in suitable localities throughout Bur- 

 ma, Assam, Bengal, Oudh, the North-'W'est Provinces, arid the 

 eastern portion of the Punjab, although in this latter locality it is 

 much rarer than in the other provinces above named. In the 

 Central Provinces it is Only found in the northern and eastern 

 portions. It is common in the Kyiaore Range and extends on to 

 the Maikle or Ammurkuntuk Eanges. It is the only Jungle-fowl 

 in SumbulpoOr, Raipore, Balaghat, Mandlah, and Jubbulpoor. 1 

 have been ung^ble to ascertain which Jungle-fowl occurs in the 

 hUls about Seoni, Kooraiie, Deoghur, and Chundwara, but I suspect 

 that the Kunhun Valley here divides the two species. In Bustar 

 and Puchmurree both it and the next species meet. In Madras it 

 occurs on the Eastern Ghats in Gaujam and Vizagapatam ; in fact, 

 as far south as the Godavery. 



It is not confined to the plains ; in summer at any rate it is to 

 be found at elevations of from 3000 to 4000 feet in the hills, 

 about whose bases it is most commonly found in winter. It breeds 



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