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Nothing.appears to Ъз known about the nidifieation of the Malayan 
species, but the closely allied Burmese form is said to lay two eggs 
only, an unusually small number for a game-bird. 
GENERAL RaNcGE.—The Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. . The 
alleged occurrence in Tenasserim is decidedly doubtful, and authenti- 
cated specimens have not been obtained from further north than 
Salanga or Junk Ceylon. 
Maray Name.—Kuang chermin, 
+ 33. CHALCURUS INOPINATUS, RoruscH. 
. Chaleurus inopinatus (Rothsch) ; Bull., B.O.C., p. 42 (1904). 
The present species is somewhat closely allied to the preceding, from 
which it may be distinguished by having the sides of the head feathered, 
not naked, and only slightly crested, by its relatively longer tail and 
by the ground colour of the plumage above being chestnut, not greyish. 
In habits it ressembles most of the other species of game-birds 
inhabiting dense jungle, running with extreme swiftness, and never. 
taking wing until very hard a: It frequents dark and damp 
ravines above 3,000 ft., and appears to feed principally on small 
insects and millipedes and the fruit of a creeping rotan, very common 
in the mountains. 
LOCALITIES IN THE nes —Pahang: Ulu Dong (Water- 
stradt); Gunong Tahan, 3,000 ft. (Wray a Robinson) ; Selangor: 
Gunong Mengkuang Lebah, 4,000- 5, 800 ft. (Robinson), 
GENERAL BRaxcr.— Mountains of the Malay Peninsula. The only 
other species of the genus Chaleurus Saee (Less.) inhabits the 
mountains on the west coast of Sumat 
94. RHEINARDIUS NIGRESCENS—THE MOUNTAIN ARGUS-PHEASANT. 
Rheinardius ocellatus nigrescens боари» Bull., B.O.C., xi, 
р. 95 (1902) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., ix., p. 5 
This magnificent bird is very closely allied to a species found in the 
mountains of Annam, French Indo-China, which has hitherto been 
considered to be one of the porem of all game-birds. 
The three original specimens, which formed the basis of Mr. Roths- 
child's description, were secured, according to in асса obtained b 
me, by Mr. Waterstradt's native hunters on the ong, а river 
ng, res ev y3 
catching two ц of which one was utterly spoilt by a musang 
before the trap was s visited, but dozens of the yape ase Ph 
The single perfect specimen was shot by one of our к who Ms а 
singular gift for securing rare and shy ground birds. 
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