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Birds of Fohkien. 
f 26. Phasianus ellioti Swinhoe. 
La Touche obtained a specimen at Kuatun. Last winter 
my man saw the dried body of one in a native house at or 
near Yamakan. The owner told him it came from Kieli 
Ning Fu, where, according to him, it is not uncommon. 
4- 2 7. Genn^us nycthemerus (Linn.). 
Silver Pheasants appear to be very common all round 
about Ching Fung. A man at Yamakan told my collectors 
that they shoot these birds at times from huts made of 
brandies, in which the sportsman spends the night and 
shoots the birds at dawn as they come to pick up the food 
scattered about to attract them. The shot birds are allowed 
to remain where they fall, and seven or eight are sometimes 
obtained in a morning. They also shoot the birds at roost 
by torchlight. 
4 28. Arboricola ricketti Grant, Bull. B. O. C. viii. 
p. xlvii. 
I have, in all, obtained eight specimens of this Hill- 
Partridge from Yamakan and Ah Cldung. Of these seven 
are males; the eighth is not sexed, owing to shot-damage. 
My man describes the note as a low “ goo, goo, goo.” He 
says they keep on the ground in dense underwood all day, 
but roost in trees. Previous to flying up to their roosts 
they are very noisy, uttering their note seven or eight 
times in succession, with increasing rapidity and in an 
ascending scale. They appear, from his account, to be far 
from uncommon. The stomach of one he brought to me 
contained two small acorns, the stones of some berry, a few 
small univalves, and remains of insects. 
4 29. Ceriornis caboti Gould. 
The natives at Yamakan described a bird that they say 
occurs in the forest, w r hich my collector thinks must be this 
Tragopan, but as yet no specimen has been obtained. At 
Kuatun it must be very common, as my men brought me 
14 skins last autumn. All but two were females; the ex¬ 
ceptions were young males in an interesting transition stage 
of plumage. One of these is now in the Natural History 
Museum at South Kensington. 
