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primaries not margin(?d with buff, and the central pair of tail- 

 feathers pale brown, obliquely barred and marked with black, and 

 similar to the second pair. 



Adult female. Is said to differ from the tj^pical female of Cpictus 

 in having the general colour of the plumage darker, especially on the 

 sides of the head and throat, and the ear-coverts uniform dark brown. 



Hah. Locality, if any, unknown. 



I am exceedingly doubtful if this bird has any right to even sub- 

 specific rank. It is probably a domestic variety of C. pictus and 

 has never been obtained (so far as I am aware) in a wild state. 



a. (S ad. sk. No locality. Gould Coll. 



2. Chrysolophus amherstiae. 



Phasianus amherstise, Leadh. Tr. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 129, pi. 15 

 (1828); Gray, in Griff, ed. Ctiv. iii. p. 25 (1829); Less. TraiU 

 d'Orn. p. 496 (1831) ; Blyth, Cat. 3Ius. As. Soc: p. 246 (1849). 



Phasianus amherstia, Temm. PI. Col. v. Fhas. p. 11 (1830) ; Jard. 

 Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. p. 210 (1834). 



Thaumalea amherstise, Wayl. Isis, 1832, p. 1228 ; Gray, List of B. 

 pt. iii. Gall. p. 24 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 497, pi. exxv. (1845); 

 id. Cat. Hodys. ed. i. p. 124 (1846) ; Sclat. List of Phas. p. 5, pi. 3 

 (1863) ; Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 307 ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 20 

 (1866) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 128, 670 [Yun-ling Mts., W. Sze- 

 chuen] ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 297 [Ta-tsien-lou] ; Sivinhoe, P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. Ill ; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vii. p. 11 (1871) 

 [Moupin] ; Elliot, Monoy. Phas. ii. p. xx, pi. xiv. [text] (1872) ; 

 Sclat. Ibis, 1874, p. 169; David ^- Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 415, 

 pi. 103 (1877) [W. Sze-cbuen, Yunnan, Quei-chow, £. Thibet] ; 

 Anders. B. W. Yunnan, p. 671 (1878) [Yunnan Frontier Hills] ; 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1891, p. 380 [W. Sze-chuen]. 



Epomia amherstii, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 

 Chrysolophus amherstise, Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mas. ^. 30 (1867) ; 

 id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 258 (1870) ; Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 398. 



Adult male. Top of the head dark bronze-green ; elongate occipital 

 crest blood-red ; cape-like feathers covering the back of the head 

 and neck pure white, margined and barred across the middle with 

 black, glossed with steel-blue, and mostly rounded at the extremity ; 

 mantle and scapulars dark green, very similar in colour to the 

 feathers of the mantle in C pictus, but the extremities are much 

 more rounded ; feathers of the lower back and rump black, widely 

 tipped with yellowish buff, and with a subterminal band glossed 

 with dark green ; shorter upper tail-coverts tipped with scarlet ; 

 longer upper tail-coverts white, irregularly barred with black and 

 widely tipped wtih orange-red ; centre pair of tail-feathers white, 

 with arched black bars on either web and the interspaces marked 

 with wavy lines of black ; the outer feathers have the outer webs 

 brownish white, barred with black, but without any intermediate 

 black mottlings, and the inner webs white irregularly mottled with 

 black ; the wing-coverts and outer secondaries black, glossed with 

 dark purplish green ; primaries brownish black, partially maigined 

 with buff on the outer web, remaining secondaries black: chin, 



