206 PHASIANIBJE. 



Nails long and nearly straight. 



Tail of 14 short, somewhat rounded feathers, the middle pair rather 

 longer than the outer and less than half the length of the wing. 



Fore part of the throat and neck often thinly covered with feathers 

 or nearly naked. 



A supraorbital chain of bones. [Wood-Mason, Ann. N. H. (4) 

 xvi. p. 145.] 



1st primary about equal in length to the 9th, sometimes to the 

 8th or 10th ; 4th or 5th slightly longest. 



Range. Himalayas and Indo-Chinese countries ; Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo, Hainan, Formosa, ? Philippines. 



Keij to tlie Species. 



A. Concealed patch of downy feathers under 

 the wing grey. 

 a. Feathers of the sides and flanks grey or 

 grey edged with chestnut, usually with a 

 white spot or shaft-stripe on each. 

 a'. Upper back olive -brown, baiTed and 

 fringed with black. 

 a". Top of the head bright chestnut; chin 

 and throat black, in some specimens 

 each feather nan-owly margined with 



white torqueola <S , p. 207. 



h". Top of the head brownish or olive- 

 brown, each feather tipped with black. 

 a'". Chin, throat, and front of neck 

 rufous, the two latter spotted all 

 over with black, sometimes on the 



sides only torqueola J , p. 207. 



V". Chin and throat black ; front of neck 



black, each feather edged with white, atrogularis S $, 

 c'". Cbin and throat black ; front of [p. 209. 



neck orange-scarlet aniens, p. 210. 



iZ'". Chin, upper part of throat, and front 

 of neck white ; lower part of throat 



black crudigularis ^ 5 > 



b'. Upper back uniform olive-brown, not [p. 211. 



barred with black; sometimes some of 

 the feathers are slightly fringed with 

 black at their extremities, 

 c". Chest grey ; top of the head olive- 

 brown, each feather edged with black- 

 ish brown. 

 e'". Front of the neck bright rufous. [p. 211. 



a*. Cbin and throat black iyitermedia (S 5 , 



b*. Chin and throat rufous, thickly [p. 212. 



spotted with black mfogularis S 2 > 



/' ". Front of the neck black, separated 



from the chest bj' a narrower white 



and a wider darli chestnut band . . gingica, p. 213. 



d" . Chest and top of the head chestnut ; 



chin and throat bright rufous ; front 



of neck white, divided from the chest 



by a narrow black band mandellii(S $ , p. 214. 



