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PHASIANID^. 



distinguished \)y having only the chin and throat chestnut, the sides 

 of the face darkish gre)^ like the superciliary stripes and sides of 

 the neck, instead of bright rufous chestnut, aud the general colour 

 of the breast and belly ochraceons buff, each feather with a sub- 

 terminal transverse spot or bar of bright chestnut usually margined 

 with blackish. Bill leaden black, brownish white at the tip of the 

 upper mandible ; legs and feet dark brownish olive-green. 



Male. Total length 10 inches, wing 5-3, tail 3-8, tarsus 1-6. 



Female. Total length 9'6 inches, wing 5'1, tail 3'5, tarsus I'O. 



Hab. Island of Formosa. 



a,b.c?2 fid. sk. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 



d, e. c? ad. st. 



North Formosa, March {B. 



Stoinhoe). 

 North Formosa {R. Swinhoe). 

 Formosa. 



Tweeddale CoU. 



Hume Coll. 



R. Swinhoe, Esq. 



[C.]. 



23. GALLOPERDIX. 



Type. 



Galloperdi.Y, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. pt. 2, p. 936 



(1844) G. lumilata. 



Hepburuia, Reichenh. Nat. Syst. Vog. p. xxviii (1852) . . G. lunulata. 



Plectroperdix, Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 293 (1890). G. kuudata. 



Sexes different. 



Tail composed of 14 feathers, fairly long, rounded, the outer 

 feathers more than an inch shorter than the middle pair. 



1st primary is much shorter than the 2ad, which is equal to or 

 shorter than the 10th ; 5th and Gth slightly the longest. 



Tarsi rather longer than the middle toe and claw, and armed in 

 the male with two and sometimes with three pairs of spurs. In the 

 female one pair of spurs is developed, rarely two, though one or 

 other of the tarsi may be armed with two spurs. 



Axillaries short. 



A large naked space before and around the eye. 



Range. India and Ceylon. 



Key to the Species. 



I. With two or three pairs of spurs. (Males.) 



A. Top of the head brown, without white mark- 



ings ; mantle chestnut, edged with pale sandy 

 brown ; breast chestnut, with or without 

 grey spots spadicea, p. 261. 



B. Top of the head black, with white shaft-stripes 



or spots. 



a. Mantle chestnut, each feather with a sub- 



terminal white ocellus surrounded by a 



black ring ; breast buff, spotted with black, lunulata, p. 263. 



b. Mantle black, with white shaft-stripes ; breast 



white, more or less edged with black .... bicalcarata, p. 2G4. 



