35. PHAsiANcs. 335 



17. Phasianus ellioti. 



Phasianua ellioti, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1872, p. TjoO [Che-kiang] ; David ^• 

 Oiistal. Ois. Chine, p. 412, pi. 101 (1877) [Clie-kian?, E. Fo-kien]. 



Calophasis ellioti, Elliot, Monoff. Phas. ii. pi. .xiii. bis [text] (1872) : 

 Gould, li. Ami, vii. pi. 23 (1874). 



Gallophasis ellioti, Ritme, Ibis, 1881, p. 608. 



Adult male. Top of the head sandy brown mixed with chestnut ; 

 nape and back of the neck grey, shading into white on the sides; 

 chin, throat, and fore part of neck black, slightly glossed with 

 purple ; a band of black feathers widely tipped with white divides 

 the mantle from the scapulars and runs roughly parallel to a dark 

 purplish-steel band across the lesser wing-coverts ; the mantle, 

 scapulars, median wing-coverts, chest, and breast orange-red, with 

 fiery-gold reflections, the former and the latter with short sub- 

 terminal black cross-bars ; the lower back and rump-feathers black, 

 barred and fringed with white ; primaries and their coverts brown, 

 the terminal part of the outer webs and tips of the former mixed 

 with rufous ; secondaries and secondary-coverts mostly brown on 

 the inner web and chestnut ou the outer, with a black subterminal 

 bar and white tip ; the white tips of the coverts are very wide, and 

 make a broad bar across the wing, subparallel to the two former ; 

 fiank-feathers like the secondary-coverts ; belly and vent white ; 

 under tail-coverts black, mixed with chestnut. Upper tail-coverts 

 and tail with wide alternate bars of chestnut and grej^, edged with 

 black, most marked on the outer tail-feathers. Total length 32-5 

 inches, wing 8*8, tail 19, tarsus 2-8. 



Adult female. Feathers of the top of the head brown, edged with 

 chestnut ; sides of the head, back, and sides of the neck and chin 

 sandy grey : throat and fore part of the neck black ; mantle black, 

 mottled with rufous buff and tipped with sandy brown, the upper 

 feathers with irregular white shaft-spots ; lesser, median, and 

 secondary wing-coverts very similar, and separated from the mantle 

 by a -wide sandy-grey band ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts sandy brown, mottled with rufous buff and black. Quills 

 dark brown, irregularly barred and mottled with buff and rufous 

 buff. Chest, breast, and flanks sandy brown, irregularly spotted 

 with black ; the lower feathers edged with white, rest of under- 

 parts mostly white ; middle pairs of tail-feathers brownish white 

 mottled with black, outer pairs and under tail-coverts chestnut 

 widely tipped with white, and with a wide black subterminal bar. 

 Total length 20 inches, wing 8, tail 7"7, tarsus 2-5. 



Hah. Mountains of South-eastern China, Che-kiang, and Fo-kien. 



a,h. S 2 ^^- ^^- Ningpo. Purchased. 



18, Phasianus humiae, 



Callophasis humiae, Hutne. -S/;-. F. ix. p. 461 (18S0) [S. Manipurl : 

 id. Ibis, 1881, p. 608; GodH:-Aii.'<t. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 715, pi. li 

 [N.E.Manipur] ; Hume, Str. F. xi p. 302 (1888). 



Phasianus huniia\ U'. Sclat. Ibis, 1801, p. l.')2 [Upper Burmah]. 



