containing two eggs partly incubated* 
I have generally found that the eggs do not exceed two in number* but 
sometimes three, and occasionally four, are found. The general colour is 
creamy, but some eggs are"whiter than others; white specks sometimes pre¬ 
vail all over the shell in-the same manner as in the ordinary hen’s eggs. 
Sometimes they are closely stippled with brownish specks, or minute points 
of reddish grey, which occasionally tend slightly to form an indistinct 
zone at either the larger or smaller end. They vary from 1.75 to 2 inches 
in length by from 1*24 to 1.49 in breadth. 
In 1873 Mr Parker found a nest on the top of a young tree about thirty 
feet high. He writes me that it had the appearance of a crow’s or hawk’s 
nest, of which the Jungle Hen had taken possession. She flew off, and 
three fspan were found to be in the nest. After incubation the young 
would doubtless have been carried down by the mother to the ground, just as 
young ducklings are conveyed from a tree nest to water. 
The young chicks when slightly larger than a quail, fly well and very 
strongly; they shew their Galline nature in displaying a strong affection 
for the parent. I once shot a hen which was accompanied by a brood of 
hal" grown chicks; as I approached them they ran to and fro by the dead 
bird until I was close to them, when they flew off. 
The figures in the drawing represent a cock from the Trincomalie dist¬ 
rict, a female from the Horton Plains, and a chick shot on the summit of 
Alegala Peak. 
