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Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the 
17th May. The latter bird was sitting on her nest when 
shot. The hunter who secured her, happening to look up 
into a large tree, saw a bird looking down at him, and, taking 
it for a Barbet (!), fired a charge of dust-shot, which, to his 
astonishment, brought down a fine hen Tragopan. He at 
once climbed the tree and found, on an old squirrel’s nest 
of the year before, four eggs. According to the man’s state¬ 
ment, the nest was about 30 feet from the ground. These 
are the first eggs of C. caboti obtained at Kuatun. The 
natives having never taken the nest before, they were much 
astonished at finding it so high up in a tree, as until then 
they had met with Pheasants’ nests only on the ground. 
Of the four eggs brought to me, two were nearly ready to 
hatch and two were addled, one of the latter being quite 
rotten. The remains of the young birds extracted from the 
fertile eggs have been deposited in the British Museum. The 
wings of the young birds have quills over an inch long. One 
of the eggs, now in Mr. Pickett’s collection, measures 
L92XL62 inch. The other three measure 2 , 20xl*60, 
L95 X 1*55, and 1*91 X 1‘60 inch. The colour of these eggs 
js buff, thickly freckled with pale brown, the freckling 
coalescing in places. The texture is chalky. The shape is 
a short broad ovate in two eggs, and ovate in a third. 
S imm. 30th March, 1898. Wattle pink, banded with pale 
cobalt, the bands tinged in centre with silvery green; 
hairy part of wattle livid purple, spotted with orange- 
vermilion ; legs greenish pink ; claws livid grey. Total 
length 24*5 inches. The crop contained young leaves. 
$ ad. 13th April, 1898. Iris light brown; bill livid purplish 
brown. Total length 1-79 inches. 
$ ad. 17th May, 1898. Upper mandible light brown; lower 
piandible pale greyish; legs pale pinkish grey; claws 
grey. Total length 21 inches. Stomach contained 
acorns, 
-f- 170. Francolinus chinensis (Briss.). 
A pair shot near Wu Yi Shan, where this species is 
apparently common. I heard several calling on the low hills 
near Shao-wu-fu. 
