468 Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay^s Notes 
disturbed by a shot, and will frequently alight on a branch 
within a few yards of the firer’s head. 
Iris bloodshot-amber; orbital skin purplish pink; legs 
and feet carnation. 
521. Macropygia assimilis. 
Macropygia assimilis, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 441. 
Affects bamboo and other low jungle. I found it most 
numerous on the western slope of the Karen hills, and gene¬ 
rally solitary in its habits. 
522. Macropygia tusalia. 
I found a nest containing two white eggs at 4000 feet in 
the Karen hills on the 18th March. The eggs measured 
roughly 1*4 by PO inch. 
Iris white, surrounded by pale lilac; orbital skin grey, 
with an inner rim of purple round the eye; bill blackish; 
legs purplish pink. 
528. Gallus ferrugineus. 
(Burmese, “ Tau-kiet.”) 
I took eleven eggs from a nest in Karen-nee on the 14th 
March. The eggs were simply laid in a small hollow scratched 
out by the bird under a fallen branch. 
532. Francolinus sinensis. 
(Burmese, “Ka.”) 
This bird, although unknown in the plains of the Tonghoo 
district, is very abundant in the Karen-nee, and also in the 
Thyetmyo district to the westward of the Yoma. In the hills 
it frequents the sides of rocky hills and other inaccessible 
places. Its whereabouts may always be known by its extra¬ 
ordinary call, which it is continually uttering, and which may 
be rendered on paper by the syllables kuk, kuk, kuich, ka-ka. 
The flesh of this Francolin when cooked in the ordinary 
way is singularly tasteless. 
552. Charadrius ftjlvus. 
The Eastern Golden Plover arrives in Burma about the 
middle of September, but does not remain very long after the 
termination of the rainy season. 
