36. CHRYSOLOPHUS. 



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■with rufous ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pale 

 brown, finely vermiculatcd with black ; wing-coverts, scapulars, and 

 secondaries rather coarselj' barred with black and buff and tipped 

 with grej'ish brown, finely vermiculated with black ; primaries dark 

 brown, irregularly barred with bufi' on the outer web and rufous 

 on the inner; chin and throat pale buft'; sides of the head and rest 

 of undcrparts bufi', barred with brownish black, except on the middle 

 of the belly, which is nearly immaculate ; centre pair of tail-feathers 

 brown, with irregular blackish cross-markings, outer feathers washed 

 with rufous and indistinctly marked with bufi' and black bars and 

 mottlings. Total length 24 inches, wing 7, tail 14, tarsus 2"4. 



Hah. Mountains of Southern and Western China, extending into 

 Koko-nor. 



a. S ad. St. (C. am- 

 herstue %,C.pictus j). 

 6. tS ad. St. 



Hybrid hetiveen Chrysolophus pictus and C. amhcrstise. 



Thaimialen amherstise X T. picta, Elliot, Monog. Phas. ii. pi. xvii. 



[text] (187:^). 



Herefordshire. Purchased. 



Dr. Vekemans [P.]. 



Hyhrid between C. pictus and Gallus domesticus (yar. Bantam). 

 a. Ad. St. Fifeshire, Nov. W. Berry, Esq. [P.]. 



Hyhrid between Phasianus colchicus and C. pictus. See p. 324. 



Hybrid between Phasianus recvesi ami C. pictus. See p. 339. 



Subsp. n. Chrysolophus obscorus. 



Phasianus jiictus obscurus, >SW(/. Ned. Tijd. Dierk. ii. p. 152 (1865). 

 Chrysolophus nhscurus, Ciray, J.ist (ialli)i(r Brit. Mus. p. 30 (1867). 

 Thaumalea obscura, Elliot, Monog. Phas. ii. pi. xvi. [text] (1872). 



Adult mnh\ Differs from the typical male of C. pictus in having 

 the sides of the head, chin, and throat brownish black : the scapulars 

 brownish black, scarcely tinged with red, the outer webs of the 



