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*+28.- EXCALFACTORIA CHINENSIS—THE BLUE-BREASTED BUTTON QUAIL. 
Excalfactoria chinensis (Linn.); Ogilvie-Grant, t.c., p. 250; 
PARS t.c., p. 92. 
The Blue-breasted Button Quail is common in settled distriets 
shivoughout the Peninsula. It is found principally in stretches of 
abandoned cultivation and mining land that have been overgrown wit 
lalang grass (Imperatoria pee i) and in paddy fields that E lying 
fallow or have just been reaped. It is especially abun in the 
j or plough land along the banks of the elei and 
lower Tembeling rivers in Pahang. Usually it is met with, singly or 
lie very:elose. The breeding season is in July or August and the nest 
consists merely of a few = withered аа placed іп а hollow 
among low bushes or high lalang grass. Тһе eggs are six or seven in 
number, dull greenish = eh faintly speckled with black. 
GENERAL Ranex.—From the Peninsula of India, throughout the 
southern part of Asia to Formosa, Celebes and the Moluccas. 
closely allied race inhabits the other islands of the Malay Archipelago, 
the Philippines and Australia. 
Maray Name.—Pikau. 
*t129.- ACOMUS Se or А HE BUFF-TAILED FIREBACK 
AN 
Acomus erythrophthalmus ( (Raffles) ; Ogilvie-Grant, t.c., p. 283 ; 
Sharpe, t.c., p. 34. 
Very little indeed is known of the habits of this Fireback which is 
no mean bir 
As a rule it is met with in low н; jungle, not ascending the 
hills, but inhabiting much the same type of country as is affected by 
Melanoperdiz nigra. In some districts it is not uncommon in old 
second growth jungle or “blukar” in the vicinity of small native 
villages. Like its near allies it is polygamous and the females appear 
to be very much more numerous than the males. 
... LOCALITIES IN PENINSULA.—Kedah (Cantor); Penang 
(Cantor); Province ‘Wellesley Cantor) ; Perak: Kuala Kan 
(Kelham) ; Selangor: Kuala Lumpur (Sel. Mus.) ; Malacca; Johore 
(Beden Kloss) ; Singapore 
- The localities Penang and Singapore, which rest on old specimens 
in the British Museum, are open to very considerable doubt. 
species does not now, if it ever did, occur in either of the islands. 
; GEN Ran eu the Malay Peninsula, south of 
Kedah, ig in possibl 
Maray Name.—Kuang а ог Маќа шегаһ. 
