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" but more than once put up cock birds from spots where I 

 " had heard a vigorous crowing and flaj^ping of wings going 

 " on the moment before. 



" They are not bad eating, but not nearly so tasty as our 

 "home birds, but then they had not the advantages of hang- 

 " ing, sauces, &c., except the one sauce, 'hunger.' The flesh 

 "' was very white, rather dry and, of the old birds, horribly tough. 

 " One or two hens we shot and ate were much nicer than the 

 " cocks. 



" We never found their nests, eggs or young, but it might 

 "not have been the right season for them." 



GeNN^US NYCTHEMERUS RUFIPES. 



The Euhy Mines Silver Pheasant. 



Gennoius riifiiJeii, Gates, Man. Game-B., I., p. 362 (1898) ; id. Ibis (1903), 

 p. 97 ; Ghigi, Mem. Acad. Bologna (6), V., p. 139 (1908). 



Gennoeus atlayi, Gates, Ann. and Mag. Nat. His. (8), V., p. 162 (1910). 



Gennmus (jranti. Gates, Ann. and Mag. Nat. His. (8), V., p. 163 (1910). 



(?eww(CMs «ssiwz7w. Gates, Jour. B. N. H. S., XVI., p. 114 (1904); Gates, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. His. (7), XIV., p. 286 (1904) ; Ghigi, Mem. Acad. 

 Bologna (6), V., p. 141 (1908). 



Gennceus elet/ans. 



Gennceus affinis, Gates, Ann. and Mag. Nat. His. (7), XI., p. 231 (1903) ; 

 Ghigi, Mem. Acad. Bologna (6), V., p.l43 (1908). 



GenncBus nijcthemerus viifipes, Stuart Baker, Jour. B. N. H. S., XX III., 

 p. 680 (1915). 



Kalij Pheasants, Finn, and Nisbett, Jour. B.N.H.S., XIII., p. 521 . 



Vernacular Names. — Yit {Burmese), Wuri (Kachin). 



Description — Adult Male. — Similar to G. n. ripyoni, but still darker, 

 the black lines and bars on the upper plumage being broader and 

 more numerous, especially on the tail. The sides of the neck are 

 less pure white, and as a rule are profusely vermiculated all over with 

 fine, wavy bars of black. The tail is on an averaije much shorter 

 than in ripponi and nycthemerus. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — As in nycthemerus. 



Measurements.— Wing i'vom 9-7" (24Sb mm.) to ll'O" (279-4 

 mm.) with an average for twenty birds of 10-3" (261-6 mm.) ; tail 

 from 16-0" (406-4 mm.) to 20-8" (528-3 mm.), nearly always 

 below 19-0" (482-6 mm.); tarsus 3-45" (87-5 mm.) to 3-85" 

 (97-7 mm.); bill at front about 1-2" (31-0 mm.), and from gape 

 1-4" (35-5 mm.); spurs nearly alwaj^s under 1" (25-4 mm.), and 

 crest from 2-7" (68-5 mm.) to 3-5" (88*9 mm.), and averaging 

 under 3" (76-2 mm.). 



Female. — General colour above rich olive brown, crest darker 

 and tail very I'ichly barred and mottled with deep chestnut and 



