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comb, and wattles crimson ; the auricular region pinkish white ; the 

 bill horn, with the mandible paler ; the feet, toes, and spurs gray or 

 blue-gray. I have noted that an adult female had the irides bright 

 orange; the eyelids plumbeous; the naked skin of the face pinkish 

 gray ; the rudimentary comb pink ; the maxilla horny brown, tinged 

 pink at the base ; the mandible whitish, tinged fleshy at the base ; the 

 feet and toes slaty; the soles slaty brown; the claws horny flesh. A 

 juvenile male had the irides brown ; the naked skin of face and orbital 

 region pink; the maxilla dark horny brown; the mandible fleshy, 

 horny at the tip; the feet and toes olive-brown; the claws horny 

 brown. 



The wild junglefowl is so similar to the domesticated bird to be 

 seen on every side in Thailand that no detailed description of plum- 

 ages will be given. The downy white bases of the upper tail coverts 

 of the adult male are conspicuous in flight and afford an excellent 

 field mark. 



Further collecting in Chiang Rai Province may show that the popu- 

 lation of that area must be called Gallus galhis jdbouillei. 



SYRMATICUS HUMIAE BURMANNICUS (Oates) 



Burmese Barred-backed Pheasant 



Calophasis burmannicus Oates, Ibis, 1898, pp. 124-125 (Ruby Mines district of 

 Burma and Kalaw, Southern Shan States). 



Pliasiatius humiae burmaiiicus, Gairdneb, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1919, p. 229 

 (Doi Suthep). 



Synnaticus humiae burmanicus, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1929, p. 581 (Doi Suthep) ; 1934, p. 274 (Doi Chiang Dao).— Deig- 

 nan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 168 (Doi Suthep). — Chasen 

 and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1932, p. 232 (Doi 

 Suthep). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist., Suppl., 193G, p. 79 (Doi 

 Suthep). 



Few specimens of this beautiful copper pheasant are known from 

 Thailand, where it seems to be a species of considerable rarity. An 

 adult male taken by Gairdner on Doi Suthep, 4,350 feet, March 31, 

 1919, constitutes the first record for the Kingdom. De Schauensee 

 collected an adult male on Doi Suthep, 5,500 feet, December 29, 1928. 

 One day later, I saw, at 5,100 feet on the same mountain, a male ac- 

 companied by three or four hens. At the same spot, May 11, 1930, 

 I shot an adult male. Finally, a pair were taken by de Schauensee 

 at 4,000 feet on Doi Chiang Dao, January 14, 1933. During my sec- 

 ond visit to Thailand, 1935-1937, in spite of constant collecting on 

 Suthep, I never once saw or heard of the species. 



Like the silver pheasant, this bird seems to spend the middle of the 

 day concealed in the dense evergreen of the upper slopes, coming out 

 only at dusk and dawn to feed in the open hill- forest of oak or pine. 

 The examples observed by me were along paths through the tall lalang 



