340 PHASIANID^. 



p. 743 (1788) ; Lath. Intl. Oni. ii. p. 630 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tabl. 



Encycl. Meth. i. p. 186, pi. 88. fig. 4 (1791) ; Shcm, Mm. Lever. 



p. 204, pi. (1792) ; Haijes, Osterl. Menar/. p. 5, pis. 5 & 6 (1794) ; 



Fall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 86 (1811) ; Temm. Piq. et Gall. ii. 



p. 341 (1813), iii. p. 671 (1815) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 



p. 41 (1817); Steph. in Shaiv's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 231 (1819); 



Werner, Atl. Ois. d'Eur., Ord. 10, pi. 3 (1828) ; Grif. ed. Cuv. 



iii. p. 23 (1829) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 495, pi. 83. fig. 2 (1831) ; 



Schinz, Nat. Abbild. Voy. p. 250, pi. 96 (1833) ; Jard. Nat. Lib., 



Orn. iv. p. 209, pi. xviii. (1834) ; Schinz, Nat. Vog. p. 149, pi. 72 



(1863). 

 Le Faisan dore, B'Aubent. PI. Enl. pi. 217 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 



ii. p. 355 (1771). 

 Painted Pheasant, Lath. Gen. Spi. ii. p. 717 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



viii. p. 194 (1823). 

 Thaumalea picta, Waffl. Isis, 1832, p. 1228 ; Gray, List of B. pt. iii. 



Gall p. 24 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 497 (1845) ; id. Cat. Hodgs. 



ed. i. p. 124 (1846); Schrenclc, Reis. Amur-L. i. p. 521 (1859) 



[Dauria and Amurland*]; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 307; Sclat. 



List of Phas. p. 5 (1863) ; Fitz. Atl. Nat., Vog. fig 228 (1864) ; 



Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 19 (1866) ; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vii. 



p. 11 (1871) [Sze-chuen]; Elliot, Monog. Phas. ii. pi. xv. [text] 



(1872) ; David ^ Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 414 (1877) [8. and S.W. 



Provs. of China as far as Sin-ling Mts.]. 

 Chrysolophus pictus, J. E. Gra,/, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 41. fig. 2 (1834) ; 



G. R. Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 29 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 258 (1870) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 398 [W. China to 



Koko-nor]. 

 Epomia picta, Hodgs. in Grag^s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 



Adult male. Top of the head and crest brilliant golden yellow ; 

 cape-like feathers covering the back of the neck brilliant orange at 

 the extremity, shading into yellowish buff towards the base, each 

 feather with a terminal and subterminal black band glossed with 

 steel-blue ; feathers of the mantle rich dark green, shading into 

 purplish blue, and with the basal half grey ; lower back, rump, and 

 shorter upper tail-coverts brilliant golden yellow like the crest, some 

 of the feathers on the sides and the shorter upper tail-coverts mixed 

 with crimson-scarlet ; longer upper tail-coverts and central pair of 

 tail-feathers black, thickly ocellated with pale brown spots, the former 

 with the terminal half crimson-scarlet and the latter tipped with 

 whitish buff; the rest of the tail-feathers are obliquely barred and 

 marked with pale brown and black, except the outermost pairs, 

 which are dark chestnut-brown, mottled with black ; scapulars dark 

 crimson-scarlet ; wing-coverts chestnut, mottled with black ; quills 

 brownish black, the primaries partially margined on the outer web 

 with buff, and all the outer secondaries glossed with rich purple- 

 blue ; chin, throat, and sides of the head pale rusty ; rest of the 

 underparts crimson-scarlet, shading into orange-brown on the middle 

 of the belly and thighs. Bill greenish yellow ; legs and feet greenish 

 horn. Total length about 40 inches, wing 7'7, tail 27, tarsus 2*8. 



Adult female. General colour of the head and mantle brown, 

 barred with buff' and black, the feathers of the mantle are mixed 



* This is a mistake : Diivid, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 210. 



