836 PHASIANIDJ!. 



Adult male. Differs chiefly from P. ellioii in having the neck, 

 upper parts of the mantle, and chest glossed with purplish steel 

 like the band across the wing-coverts but darker ; the breast chest- 

 nut, more or less glossed with steel-colour and fiery orange-red 

 round the margins ; the belly and flanks chestnut ; the under tail- 

 coverts black glossed with steel-green. Tail and upper tail-coverts 

 grey : the middle pair of tail-feathers widely and irregularly barred 

 with a mixture of black and chestnut ; the middle pairs ou each 

 side barred with black, and the outermost pairs almost entirely 

 black, greyish only towards the base. Total length 33'3 inches, 

 wing 8-5, tail 20-6, tarsus 2 5. 



Adult female. Differs from that of P. ellioti in not possessing the 

 black on the throat ; the white underparts of that bird (which are 

 in keeping with those of the male) are also absent. Wing S-2 

 inches, tail 7, tarsas 2*2. {Godwin- Austen.) 



Hah. Manipur and Upper Eurmah ; Shan Hills. 



a. S ad. sk. Manipur (^4. 0. H.). Hume Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. Manipur, April {A. 0. H.). Hume Coll. 



(Type of the species.) 



19. Phasiamis soemmerringi. 



Pbasianus soemmerringii, Temni. PL Col. v. pis. 8, 9 [nos. 487, 488] 

 (1830) ; Less. Traite cFOrn. p. 496 (1831) ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Om. 

 iv. p. 205, pi. xvii. (1834) ; Gray, List, of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 24 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 497 (1845) ; Cnssin, in Perry's E.vp. 

 Jap. ii. p. 225, pi. 2 (1856) [S. & middle of Hondo] ; Selat. 8; 

 Wolf, Zool. Sket. 2. pi. 32 (1861) ; Sclat. List of Phas. p. 5, pi. 2 

 (1863) [Simoda, Hondo]; Gray, List Gallince' Brit. Mus. p. 29 

 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 258 (1870) ; Goitld. B. Asia, vii. 



(1890) [Kiu-siu]. 



Adidt male. General colour above chestnut or brownish chestnut, 

 the margins of the feathers of the mantle, chest, scapulars, lower back, 

 and rump glossed with purplish carmine with fiery-gold reflections ; 

 the basal part of the feathers black, most noticeable on the wing- 

 coverts ; quills brownish black, the primaries mottled with rufous buff 

 and the secondaries irregularly margined round the outer web with 

 rufous ; breast and rest of underparts resemble the wing-coverts, 

 but the feathers are paler towards the margins ; central tail-feathers 

 chestnut with wide-set narrow black bars, above each of these black 

 bars the chestnut is of a deeper colour and becomes gradually 

 lighter towards the next bar ; outermost tail-feathers chestnut, 

 ■widely tipped with black. Total length 50 inches, wing 8-8, tail 37, 

 tarsus 2-5. 



Adult female. Top of the head blackish brown, each feather 

 margined with rufous buff ; back and sides of the neck and mantle 

 rufous, shading into vinaceous towards the extremity of each 

 feather, those of the mantle being somewhat coarsely mottled with 



