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meters ; tail, 84 ; tarsus, 37 ; middle toe with claw, 34 ; culmen 
from base, 24; bill from nostril, 14 . 5 . 
The distribution of the Chinese francolin is given as Indo- 
Chinese countries, Burma, Siam, Cochin China, Hainan, and 
southern China; it is said to have been introduced in Reunion 
and Mauritius. 
I am indebted to Dr. C. W. Richmond and Mr. J. H. Riley, of 
the United States National Museum, who kindly identified the 
specimens and furnished notes on the nomenclature. Osbeck’s 
name for this species is preoccupied by the same combination, 
which was used by Linnaeus to designate what is now called Ex- 
calfactoria chinensis. Scopoli’s name seems to be the next one. 
Excalfactoria lineata (Scopoli). 
On June 23, 1921, Macario Ligaya gave me a pair of island 
painted quails that had been snared near Balagbag, Luzon. I 
took them home, put them in a box, and furnished them with wa- 
ter and such grain as I could find. They were very wild, jump- 
ing about and dashing against the cage. One of them called 
“tic-tico” during the afternoon and again at dusk. The male 
died during the night. On June 25 I sat near the cage reading 
most of the afternoon. The female called three times at long 
intervals. That night I heard her twice at about 1 o’clock. This 
call had a rich, plaintive quality. There was nothing of the 
bright happy quality characteristic of the call of the bobwhite or 
the California valley partridge: On July 2, after 9 o’clock in 
the evening, the female called three times at half-hour intervals. 
Each call consisted of four notes. 
On July 3 Ligaya and I went to Balagbag, where the station 
agent gave us another pair of painted quails and a rail, Hypo- 
taenidia striata (Linnseus). He also gave us an egg that the 
quail had deposited during the night. The egg measures 24 by 
19.4 millimeters ; its color is nearly uniform grayish olive. The 
shell is compact and without pits, but has numerous, minute, 
dark brown dots, which are clearly raised above the surface. At 
the larger end a few of these dots can be distinguished without 
the aid of a lens. One of them is 0.5 millimeter in diameter. 
Through the blowhole the shell appears dark green. 
Sterna hirundo Linnseus. 
Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, while visiting Bohol Island, on July 
10, 1921, collected a female of the common tern. The specimen 
