US PHASIANUS COLCHICUS. 



and greyish tints. The inner wing-coverts are similar to the 

 scaj^ulars, but edged externally with dark red, the outer yel- 

 lowish-grey, variegated with whitish and dusky. The quills 

 are light brownish-grey, variegated with pale greyish-yellow ; 

 the secondaries more tino^ed with brown on the outer edges. 

 The tail is dull greenish-yellow, variegated with yellowish- 

 grey, the feathers Avith narrow transverse bars of black, a broad 

 longitudinal band of dull red on each side, the loose margins 

 red, glossed with green and purple. On the abdomen and legs 

 the feathers are dull greyish-brown ; under the tail variegated 

 w^ith reddish. The lower surface of the wing is yellow- 

 ish-grey. 



Length to end of tail 3^ inches ; extent of wings 82 ; wing 

 from flexure 10 ; tail 18 J ; bill along the back 1 j^*^, along the 

 edge of upper mandible lj% ; tarsus Sj% ; first toe j\^ its 

 claw /g ; second toe 1/^, its claw j% ; third toe 2j, its claw 

 1% ; fourth toe 1^^, its claw 4i twelfths. 



Of three other individuals the length 31, 35, 36 inches. 



Female. — The female is similar in form to the male, but 

 with the tail much shorter. The bill and feet require no par- 

 ticular description. The anterior scutella of the tarsus are 

 about seventeen in each row ; the first toe has five, the second 

 fifteen, the third twenty-two, the fourth eighteen. As in the 

 male there is a bare space under the eye, but scarcely papillar, 

 and more feathered. The feathers of the upper part of the 

 head are somewhat elongated ; those of the rest of the head 

 short ; of the neck and body oblong and rounded ; of the 

 rump not elongated as in the male. 



The general colour of the upper parts is greyish-yellow, 

 variegated with black and yellowish-brown ; the top of the 

 head and the hind-neck tinged with red. The wing-coverts 

 are lighter ; the quills pale greyish-brown, mottled with grey- 

 ish-yellow, as in the male. The tail is yellowish-grey, minutely 

 mottled with black, and having, in place of transverse bars, 

 oblique irregular spots of black centred with a pale yellow 

 line. The lower parts are lighter and less mottled, the throat 

 whitish, and without ppots. The bill is horn-colour, tinged 



