104 THE RED-CRESTED WOOD-QUAIL. 



a number of them feeding in the pathway on one of the high 

 ranges near Weytamaryng, on the Siam frontier, but they darted 

 into the bush like so many mice, and I could not obtain a second 

 glimpse^ of them. With other rasorial birds of the kind, they 

 are easily snared, though unattainable by a gun* and the 

 Malays bring numbers of them for sale to Singapore." 



Nothing is as yet known, I believe, of the nidification of the 

 Red-Crested Wood-Quail. 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 1075 to iro; expanse, 17*25 to 17*5 ; tail 

 from vent, 2-5 to 275 ; wing, 5-4 to 5*62 ; tarsus, r6 to 1*65 ; 

 bill from gape, 0*85 to 0*9 ; weight, 8*0 to 10*0 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 9-5 to 10*62 ; expanse, 16-25 to 17' 12 ; 

 tail from vent, 2*5 to 2*62; wing, 5*0 to 5*62; tarsus, 165 to 

 17 ; bill from gape, 0*62 to 0*8 ; weight, 8 ozs. 



The male has the legs and feet and basal portion of bill 

 scarlet red ; claws horny ; rest of bill black ; irides slaty grey ; 

 facial skin and edges of eyelids scarlet. 



The female has the legs and feet, bright red ; bill black ; irides 

 deep brown ; facial skin and eyelids bright red. 



Males and females are alike spurless. 



The plate is extremely good, but the green of the plumage 

 of the female should be a purer, darker, grass green. 



Only one other species of this genus, Rollulus niger> from the 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, is known, and even 

 this is generally separated in a sub-genus of its own (Melano- 

 perdix). 



* Like many others, I might say the great majority, of our game birds, they are 

 easy enough to shoot if you work with dogs. — A. O. H. 



