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with a black patch near the tip of the outer webs. The middle tail-feathers are 

 dull chestnut on the inner web, vermiculated with black ; and black on the 

 outer web, vermiculated with chestnut on the margin. The other tail-feathers 

 are all black. The lower plumage is black, the margins of the feathers pale 

 brown. Each feather of the breast and belly has a very broad, pointed 

 ochraceous streak, occupying quite half of the feather and in some cases 

 three-quarters, and mottled with black. The feathers of the sidfjs of the body 

 and flanks have bright ochraceous shaft-streaks. 



Length of wing 9 inches, of tail 8-5 inches. The legs are pale brown. 



Specimens of this pheasant have been sent to me by Lieut. R. Clifford, of 

 the 22nd Punjabis, and I have much pleasure in associating lis name with 

 the species. It occurs in the Myitkyina District, east of the Irrawaddy 

 river. 



Genncms assimilis, sp. n. 



In the year 1826 Crawfurd went on a mission to the Court of Ava, and in the 

 course of his travels met with a pheasant, of which a coloured drawing was 

 made. So far as I can ascertain, nothing was known of this drawing till Gould 

 reproduced it in the background of his plate of Diar dig alius prcelalus in his 

 " Birds of Asia." I have often looked at this drawing of Gould's and wonder.' 

 ed why the artist should have depicted the female of Genixvus rufipes, the 

 Ruby Mines Pheasant, with flesh-coloured legs. The mystery was cleared up 

 when I received from the Ruby Mines a bird which corresponded precisely with 

 Gould's figure. On writing to one of my correspondents, I learn that there is 

 in the Ruby Mines District a pheasant with pale legs, very similar in other 

 respects with the red-legged species, and equally well known. I hope, there- 

 fore, soon to acquire the male. 



The female of the present species has the whole upper plumage and the 

 upper wing-coverts of a uniform umber-brown, the shafts and the margins 

 of the feathers somewhat paler ; the crest a darker brown, vermiculated with 

 black ; the upper tail-coverts also thickly vermiculated with dark brown. 

 The primaries are dark brown, mottled with fulvous on the outer webs ; the 

 secondaries are umber-brown, vermiculated with black. The tail-feathers 

 are diagonally barred and vermiculated with a combination of umber-brown, 

 fulvous, black, and very pale buff, inner webs being darker and more coarsely 

 marked than the outer. The whole lower plumage is dark blackish brown 

 each feather with two broad, zigzag, Y-shaped marks of an ochraceous colour, 

 the outer being close to the edge of the feather, the inner much smaller and 

 frequently forming only an irregular and coarse streak on and about the shaft. 

 Length of wing nearly 10 inches ; of tail 10 inches. The legs are flesh-coloured. 



The main points of difierence between the female of this species and those of 

 G. rufipes, of which I have a large series, are the flesh-coloured legs, and the 

 absence of black vermiculations on the upper plumage and upper wing-coverts. 



{The above was published hi the AtweJs and Magazine of Natural History. 

 Vol. LXXXI1, October 1904.) 



