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Phasianus humi^ burmannicus (Gates). 



The Burmese Barred-Bach Pheasant. 



Cafophasis burmannicus, Gates, Ibis, 1898, p. 124 ; Sharpe, Hand-List, B., 

 IV., p. 38 (1899); Finn, Ibis, 1898, p. 311 (part); Harington, Jour. 

 B.N.H.S., XX., p. 1010 (1911); Gates, Man. Game-B., I., p. 308 (1898): 

 Finn, In. Sporting B., p. 301 (1915). 



Phasianus humiai, W. L. Sclater (nee Hume), Ibis, 1891, p. 152 (part) ; 

 Gates, Jour. B.N.H.S., X., p. 112 (1895) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. B. M., 

 XXII., p. 335 (1893) (part) ; id, Mon. Game B., II., p. 42 (1897) (part) . 

 Blanford, Faun B. I., IV., pp. 80, 486 (1898) (part) ; Finn, Jour. A. S. B. 

 (2), LXVI., p. 523 (1897) (part) ; id, ibid (2), LXIX., p. 144 (1900); Cook, 

 Jour. B. N. H. S., XXI,, p. 632 (1912) ; id, ibid, XXII., p. 270 (1913). 



Vernacular Names. — Yit (^Burmese), Wuri (J\.acMii). 



Description — Adult Male. — Similar to P. humioe Mimioe, but with 

 the steel blue of the upper parts confined to the extreme upper 

 back, and much more sharply defined from the copper-coloured 

 mantle ; the rump is black and white instead of blue and white, 

 and even when there is a certain amount of blue gloss, as is some- 

 times the case, this is of a deeper tint than it is in Mrs. Hume's 

 Pheasant ; the white fringes are also broader and more dominant 

 than they are in that bird. 



The colour of the tail bars, given Ij}- Gates as one of the dis- 

 tinguishing features, is not of much use. Generally there is more 

 chestnut on those of F. h. harmannicus, but this is not invariably 

 so, and in some birds there is no moi'e than in the type of humiai. 

 Again, Gates' definition of the differences in the colour of the bases 

 to the feathers of the lower white wing bar does not hold good. He 

 says that in humiai the concealed bases to these featiiers are black, 

 whereas in burmannicus they are " chestnut with a firm black bar." 

 This is practically coirect as far as the types of the two subspecies 

 are concerned, though the bases of the innermost feathers are well- 

 marked with chestnut in the wing of h^imice, hnt in other specimens 

 this difference is not maintained. 



In hurmoMnicus the central black wing-bar is often mixed with 

 maroon or copper colour, but this is not always so, and in one 

 specimen in the British Museum series this black wing-bar is 

 broader than in any specimen of humiai, and is equally free from all 

 admixture of maroon. 



Measurements and Colours of Soft Parts. — The same as in humia'. 

 In the series of 16 males in the British Museum and at Tring the 

 wing varies between 8-5" (215 mm.) and 9-3" (236-2 mm.), with 

 an average of 8-85" (224-9 mm.) ; tlis tails run up to 26-5" (673-1 

 mm.), and average about 22" (554-8 mm.), tarsus, spur and bill 

 measure within the extremes given for humvje. 



