BY E. BLYTH. 
on which its long toes really rested. So far as we have seen, it is 
much less gregarious than Metopidius indicus ; which latter species, 
abundant in Lower Bengal, may commonly be observed,, thirty or 
forty together, in weedy tanks and jhecls, yet not flying off in a 
body when disturbed, but each one separately, to collect again at a 
little distance. They arc far from shy, and the voice of M. vndicus 
is harsh and disagreeable. We have kept both species tame for 
months together, thriving well upon the shrimps upon which all our 
various small Grallatores were fed. II. sinensis was, in the aviary, 
rather quarrelsome with its kind, but agreed well with every other 
species. The egg of M. indicus is finely streaked as represented. 
