CATALOGUE. 683 
/ h. I. Adult and young. N. E. Bengal, m. Drawing, $ . 
Assam. From McClelland's Collection. 
n. Drawing. From F. (Buchanan) Hamilton's Col- 
lection. 
0. Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
p. Drawing. Ceylon. From Joinville's Collection. 
"The Crow Pheasant is a common and universally-spread bird, 
frequenting wooded and cultivated grounds in all parts, and found 
also in the more open spaces of thick jungles. It is often seen in 
thick hedges, also in woody nullahs, and in low bushy tracts. It 
feeds on the ground chiefly, walking and running with great facility, 
and picking up various large insects, centipedes, lizards, and even 
scorpions and small snakes. It may often be seen walking along the 
bank of a dry tank, a bund of a paddy-field, and, being a remarkably 
slow and stupid bird, and of slow flight, it is occasionally run down, 
or even caught by the hand, in sufficiently open ground. A good 
Shikra (Accipiter Dussumieri) will easily strike it down. It has a 
deep sonorous call, something like wlioot, whoot, wJioot, which is often 
heard in a thick bush or hedge, while the bird itself remains unseen. 
Irides crimson-red. Builds a very large nest in some thick bush or 
hedge, and lays two or three greenish-blue eggs. This I have on the 
authority of an excellent shikaree. It occasionally pilfers eggs from 
the nests of other birds." — (Jerdon.) 
" Common in the vicinity of Calcutta. The young bird almost 
constantly repeats a strange hoarse sound, like a person choking (a 
sort of guk, holi-hoh)^ which is not pleasant to hear. When running 
up the bough of a tree, which it does with remarkable celerity, it 
often throws the tail up over the back." — (Blyth.) 
" This bird is very common in villages and cultivated rice-fields in 
Assam, and in low inundated lands along the banks of rivers. It ia 
tame even in the most deserted places in which it is found, and 
seldom flies ; but if pressed too closely, it rather forces its way into 
a thick hedge. It delights in moist, humid climates, as is proved by 
the vast numbers of them which occur in the Sunderbunds. I am 
informed that they are common at Moulmein, on the Tenasserim 
coast. They have a very peculiar suppressed note, resembling 
whono^ uttered with such a degree of ventriloquism, that although 
you see the individual from which the sound escapes, you do not 
suspect it as the cause." — (McClelland.) 
" This bird has acquired the appellation of Crow Pheasant from a 
