BIRDS. 



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Quails were very common, but, in the absence of a dog, it was very 

 bard to secure specimens. On the road between Kuala- Lipis and the 

 Raub Gold Mines where large areas of land have been over run with 

 "lalang" grass the motor car, on which we travelled, flushed large 

 numbers of them. The female of the Bustard-Quail is captured by 

 the Malays by means of a decoy and an ingenious cage, the front of 

 which is weighted and falls as soon as the bird enters. The female is 

 extremely pugnacious, and is used as a fighting bird. — H. C. R.] 



PHASIANTDiE. 



168. GALLUS GALLUS, Lin\. 

 Gallus gallus, Grant, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mm., xxii., p. 344 (1893). 



a. m. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang Eiver. 200 ft. 19th August, 1905. (No. 

 538). 



Iris, hazel ; bill, horn ; feet, bluish lead-colour. 



[At the above locality the Jungle-Cock was very common in the 

 secondary jungle round the villages. In the Malay Peninsula it does 

 not occur in high forest. — H. C. R.J 



169. FOLYPLEOTRON INOPINATUS (ROTHSCH.). 



Chalcurus inopinatus, Rothsch., Bull., B.O.C., xiii., No. xcv., p. 41 

 (1903). 



a. /. Gunong Tahan (6th Camp). 3,300 ft. 3rd Juno, 1905. (No. 35). 



b. /. Gunong Mengkuang Lcbah, Selangor. 5,200 ft, 2nd April, 1905. 



Female. — Iris, hazel ; bill, bluish horn-colour, paler at the tip ; feet, 

 French-grey with a bluish-tinge ; soles, yellowish-green. 



[We only managed to get one specimen of this fine Peacock - 

 Pheasant on Gunong Tahan, where it appears to be rare. On the 

 mountains of Selangor it is, however, comparatively common, and is 

 found singly in steep gullies near the tops of the mountains amidst 

 a thick undergrowth of creeping rotans and other thorny palms. 

 The species is evidently the highland representative of Polyplectron 

 malaccemis, which is not found above about 3,000 ft. — H. C. R.] 



The male of this species possesses twenty tail feathers, and il 

 seems very doubtful to me whether it has been rightly placed in the 

 genus Chalcurus, for, though it has the sides of the face feathered and 

 has no pronounced crest in its general marking and in all other 

 respects, it is a Polyplectron. I, therefore, prefer to include it in that 

 genus, the characters of which, in consequence, have to be slightly 

 modified. 



170. PAVO MUTICUS, Lin\. 



Pavo muticus, Grant, p. 123. 



a. /. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. 25th August, 1905. (No. 

 595). 



