Arboricola intermedia, Blyth. 
The Amtkan Hill-rartridge.

Arboricola intemiedius, Blyth, Hume, Cat. no. 825 ter.*

I obtained a nest of this species containing six eggs on the 10th of May at an elevation of about 6000 feet near Machi in the Eastern Manipur Hills. The nest was a pretty large depression at the base of a tuft of grass scantily lined with dry bents. It was in the midst of grass about two feet high which was growing amongst thin scrub-jungle. When the nest was first found the . bird rose from the egg within a yard of us, and was snared at the nest about two hours later.

The eggs are broad ovals conspicuously pointed towards the small end; the shell is extremely fine, compact and close, and has a fine gloss, at any rate a fair amount of gloss. The colour is pure spotless white.

They measure from 1.46 to 1.62 in length, and from 1.13 to 1.19 in breadth.