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formed by the white ends of the greater wing-coverts and 

 secondaries ; throat and fore-neck black ; sides of the neck 

 and belly white; lower back and rump black, barred with white; 

 tail broadly barred with whitish-grey and chestnut. Total 

 length, 32-5 inches; wing, 8-8; tail, 19; tarsus, 2*8. 



Adult Female. — General colour of the plumage pale-drab, 

 barred, mottled, and marked with black on the upper-parts and 

 spotted on the breast ; belly mostly white, flanks margined 

 with white; back and sides of neck uniform greyish-drab, 

 throat a7id fore-neck black ; outer tail-feathers mostly chestnut 

 with black and white tips. Total length, 20 inches ; wing, 8 ; 

 tail, 77 ; tarsus, 2-5. 



Range. — Mountains of South-eastern China. 



HaMts. — This truly niagnificent Pheasant was first discovered 

 by Swinhoe, in the mountains at the back of Ningpo, in the 

 province of Che-Kiang. Subsequently it was met with by Abbe 

 David in Western Fo-kien, where, like the Silver Pheasant, it 

 lives in the wooded mountains, and is far from common, 

 being constantly on the move from place to place, and some- 

 times remaining .iway for whole years without revisiting its 

 original habitat. 



Eggs. (Laid in confinement.) — Creamy-buff; shell smooth 

 and fine. Average measurements, 17 by 1-3 inch. 



II. MRS. Hume's pheasant, calophasis humi^e. 

 Callophasis htiniice, Hume, Stray Feathers, ix. p. 461 (1880) ; 



Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 715, pi. 51 ; Hume, Str. 



F.xi. p. 302 (1888). 

 Phasianus huniice, W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1891, p. 152; Ogilvie- 



Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 335 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Differs chiefly from C. cllioii in having the neck, 

 upper mantle, and chest glossed with purplish steel-blue^ like the 

 band across the lesser wing-coverts, but darker ; the breast- 

 feathers chestnut, with steel ^loss andfer^' orange-red -niai-gins ; 



