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grizzly grey or pepper-and-salt colour, produced 

 by fine zig-zag black and white pencillings, which 

 get stronger and coarser on the quids of the wing 

 and tail. The topmost or centre tail-feathers, how- 

 ever, are pure white on their inner webs and tips, 

 contrasting well with the rest of the plumage. 



The hen is brown, with the head, neck, upper 

 back, and breast distinctly streaked with white, 

 the white marks being V-shaped on the back of 

 the neck and shoulders. Her centre tail-feathers 

 have the inner webs and the tips buff, correspond- 

 ing to the white of the same pair in the cock ; 

 and the outer pairs are black, marked with brown, 

 and pencilled with wavy white lines. She is thus 

 easily distinguishable from the hens of the previous 

 species. 



The face is red, as usual, in this species, and 

 the bill greenish horn-colour ; the eyes, however, 

 vary from red-brown to white, and the legs from 

 drab to flesh-colour. 



This is the kaleege of Burma, and it extends to 

 south-western Siam. It frequents hilly grounds, 

 and keeps to cover, being an inveterate runner 

 and skulker. It breeds in March and April, the nest 

 being merely a hollow lined with a few dead leaves, 

 and containing seven eggs of a pale buff colour. 



In order to understand the kaleeges of this 

 group, it will be necessary to describe a species 

 which is not Indian, but which with the exten- 

 sion of our Empire or of its own ranges may come 

 to be a British subject, and is at ail events better 

 known generally than any other kaleege. 



