Turnix plumbipes, Hodgson, 



Vernacular NamCS. — [Timokpho (Lepcha) ; Tiniok (Bhutia) ; Ngon (Burmese), 

 Pegu ; Puyoh, Peeyoo-Kubun (Malay) ; Gnoke-coone, Nock-kune (Siamese), 

 Malay Peninsula ; ] 



HE Indo-Malayan Bustard-Quail is found throughout 

 the Deltaic districts of Lower Bengal,* in the Bhutan 

 Duars and the Sikhim Terai, and thence westwards 

 in all the submontane Duns, Terais, Bhabars, and 

 other well-watered, more or less jungly, tracts that lie 

 within a compass of fifty miles or so from the 

 bases of the Himalayas, at any rate as far as where 

 the Jumna debouches from these. Again, in all the warmer 

 valleys and lower ranges of these mountains, it is met with up to 

 an elevation of five or six thousand feet (in places even higher), 

 as far west as the valley of the Tonse. Further, it occurs every- 

 where east of the Ganges, in Tipperah, Chittagong, Cachar, 

 Sylhet, the Assam valley as high up at least as close to Dibru- 

 garh, and the Garo and Khasia Hills. 



Eastwards it is common in many parts of Aracan, Pegu,f and 

 Tenasserim, from the extreme north to the extreme south of 

 each. 



Outside our limits, this species certainly occurs in Independent 

 Burma, Western Yunan, the Shan States, and Western Siam. I 

 believe too that the Sumatran species is identical, but I had not 

 properly studied these Bustard-Quails when I examined the 

 only Sumatran specimen I have seen, and I cannot now be 

 certain of the fact. 



I have never seen Javan specimens, but I rely on the Mar- 

 quess of Tweeddale's decision that the Javan pugnax differs 

 from our Burmese and Malayan birds. 



* It is extremely common about Calcutta. From first to last. Mr. J. C. Parker and 

 myself have taken fully a dozen nests of this species in the Botanical Gardens there. 



+ Mr. Oates writes : — 



" Found throughout the province of Pegu both in hills and plains. It is a bird of 

 the jungle, and but rarely found in the open. It is a constant resident ; according to 

 my experience, it is nowhere sufficiently common to afford sport." 



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