Species of the Genus Phasiamis. 131 



and under tail-coverts mottled dark brown and white ; the legs 

 light blue. The feathers on the rump are brown at the base, 

 green in the middle, the remaining most exposed portion of a 

 bright saffron-yellow; the tail-coverts are also brown at the 

 base, the centre portion barred green and white, ending in 

 scarlet, these feathers elongating to the extent of 10 inches, as 

 their place of insertion approaches that of the true tail prima- 

 ries : the first tail primary measures only 29 inches, the plume 

 li inch in depth, of a beautiful white ground, with broad bars 

 of green about f ths of an inch apart, extending in the direction 

 of the web, and mottled across from bar to bar ; the third and 

 fourth primaries are the longest, and measure, as before stated, 

 38 inches each ; the inner web narrow, and mottled black and 

 white ; the outer web If inch wide, with transverse circular 

 dark-green bars about fths of an inch apart, on a ground the 

 inner portion of which is grayish- white, the outer part light 

 chesnut-brown. 



It may be proper to state, that the splendid appearance these 

 specimens now exhibit in this country, is entirely owing to the 

 very judicious plan of taking off their extraordinary tail-feathers, 

 about two inches from the body of the birds, before consigning 

 them to the coops in which they were conveyed from India. 



One of these beautiful Pheasants forms part of my own private 

 collection. 



EXPLANATION OF TAB. XV. 



Phasianus Amherstice, one-fourth of the natural size. 



s 2 XII. Ob- 



