THE KALIJ PHEASANTS. 277 



the feathers of the back and wing-coverts regularly marked 

 with about te?i alternate^ black and white, concentj'ic bands. 

 Total length, 28 inches; wing, 9-9; tail, i3'6; tarsus, 3*4. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the female of G. lifieaius in 

 having the white shaft-stripes on the feathers of the under- 

 parts 7nuch wider, and the outer webs of the secondary quills 

 with irregular oblique buff bars, reaching to the shaft. Total 

 length, 23*5 inches; wing, 9*3; tail, 97; tarsus, 3'i. 



Range. — Kachin Hills east of Bhamo and the Salween 

 Valley as far south as Dargwin. 



Very few examples of this fine Kalij have been procured, but 

 it is not improbable that, when specimens (if such occur, as no 

 doubt they do) are obtained from the intermediate parts of 

 South China which lie between Yun-nan and Fo-kien, we may 

 find that this form gradually grades into the Silver Kalij 

 Pheasant. 



VII. THE SILVER KALIJ PHEASANT. GENN^US NYCTHEMERUS. 



White Chi?ia Pheasant^ Albin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 35, pi. 



xxxvii. (1740). 

 Black and White Chinese Pheasant, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. ii. 



pi. 66 (1747)- 

 Phasianus nycthemerus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 272 (1766). 

 Eiiploconms nyctlmnerus, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 38, 



fig. 2 (1834) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 17 (1859) ; Elliot, 



Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 21 (1872); David and Oustalet, 



Ois. Chine, p. 416 (1877). 

 Gennczus ?iycthemerus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 



P- 307 (1893). 

 Adult Male. — Top of the head, long crest, and under-parts 

 black, glossed with purple; upper-parts white, most of the 

 feathers with five or six narrow, regular, black, concentric lines, 

 fewer and less regular on the wing-coverts and quills ; some of 

 the feathers of the sides of the breast with white shaft-stripes, 

 Others with the whole of the outer webs white; tail longer 



