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get the answer, ‘There are none here, but there are some near Gurjunia, or at 
Ramoo, &c.’ as the case might be. I saw the place they frequent at Gurjunia ; it 
is a great stretch of high reed jungle and elephant grass, filling a wide valley between 
forest clad hills.” 
Extending thus to the extreme north of Chittagong it is probable that this 
species will also prove to occur in Hill Tipperah and Southern Cachar. 
THE ARGUS PHEASANT. (Vol. I, pp. 99, ef seg.)— 
According to the experience of the officers in charge of the London Zoological 
Society, this species only lays two eggs at a setting, the two eggs being laid at an interval 
of two days. They have laid in March, May, and July. One hen, which had lost her 
first setting, laid later a second, so perhaps they have more than one brood in the 
year. Incubation, in which the male took no part, lasted twenty-four days. 
The egg is figured and described as a moderately elongated and regular oval, 
sligthly compressed towards one end, of a “rich coffee colour” (I should call it a rich 
reddish cafe au Jlait—a very different thing to coffe colour), ‘*‘ minutely punctured 
throughout” (what withis not said, but apparently brown) “ with a darker blotch at 
the large end.” One egg (as if eggs did not vary in size, and the measurement of one 
egg could ever suffice) is said to measure 2°6 by 1°9. 
It isa pity that English writers, as a rule, have no conception of describing eggs 
thoroughly and accurately, still the above may be accepted, until better information 
is available, it being borne in mind, that experience gained from birds long captive 
as to number of eggs laid, and even as to the colour and markings of eggs, does not 
always hold good with the same birds in a wild state, and that it is therefore quite 
possible that the information furnished as to these latter, by natives, to Davison (Vol. 
I., 101) may yet prove to have been correct. 
THE GREY PEACOCK-PHEASANT. (Vol. I., pp 105, ef seg.) — 
Some little additional information in regard to this species has reached me 
from Chittagong. 
Mr. H. Fasson writes: ‘‘The Polyplectron of this district (Chittagong) is 
undoubtedly, as you say, Polyplectrum tibetanum, and the Mathura, Euplocamus 
horsheldt. 
‘* They are both very common in all the heavy jungles of the district. The 
Polyplectron rarely to be seen or shot, but not infrequently snared with horse- 
hair by the village boys—the MJashura often put up and shot when beating for 
Jungle-Fowl. 
‘“The Polyplectron is in this district invariably called ‘katmoir’ ; and is not 
known by any of the vernacular names given in your book. Ido not know what 
‘kat’ is intended to signify ; ‘moir’ is of course Peacock.” 
Mr. J. Jarbo again says: “ Polyplectrons are very early birds, and in this, 
the Chittagong, district very shy. As far as I can learn they never leave the bank of 
a stream very far; they are found in the deep, cool and secluded nooks near streams, 
may beat the edge of the main jungle, bnt never in isolated pieces of jungle. 
I have never, by any chance, seen one after 7 0’ clock A.M. 
“‘ When I was at a garden called Boorooncherra in Southern Cachar, I remember 
constantly picking up feathers belonging to this bird, and always in the same, or near 
the same place. I never could account for this except by thinking that some know- 
ing animal, finding out that this was their favourite haunt, laid in wait and daily 
carried off a victim.” 
THE NICOBAR MEGAPODE. (Vol. I, pp. 119, et seg.)— 
An egg of this species is figured on the second of the plates of eggs. 
THE MooNnaL. (Vol. L, pp. 125, e¢ seg.)— 
When Vol. I. was published I was not aware that this species extended westwards 
beyond Chitral, but during the late war, it was found to be common in Afghanistan 
on the Sufaid Koh. 
