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beautiful fresh skin and one perfectly uninjured bird in a cage, 

 both unfortunately males. According to their account, the first 

 day they began trapping they were scented (by their quon- 

 dam compatriots), their scouts driven in, and they had to fly. 

 This was probably true, because as they were to be paid a 

 large sum per bird, once they were on the ground, they would 

 assuredly not have contented themselves with securing only 

 two. . . . 



" The live bird, though a full-grown cock, became perfectly 

 tame in a few days, and was a great favourite in camp. It 

 would eat bread, boiled rice, winged white ants, moths, taking 

 them gingerly out of our hands. At last I thought I really had 

 a prize for the Zoo, something worth sending. Alas, the last 

 day I was in the Eastern Hills, about the middle of the night, 

 the huts in which my servants were, and in which was also my 

 poor Pheasant, suddenly caught fire. . . . 



"According to the accounts of my savages, these birds live 

 in dense hill forests at elevations of from 2,500 feet to fully 

 5,000 feet. They prefer the neighbourhood of streams, and 

 are neither rare nor shy. They extend right through the Kam- 

 how territory into Eastern Lushai and North-west Independent 

 Burmah." 



Nest and Eggs. — Unknown. 



THE GOLDEN PHEASANTS. GENUS CHRYSOLOPHUS. 

 Thaumaka, Wagler {nee Ruthe, Diptera, 183 1), Isis, 1832, p. 



1227. 

 Chryso/op/ms, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 41, fig. 2 (1833-4). 

 Type, C. pietus {L\nn.). 



Tail long and vaulted, composed of eighteen feathers, the 

 middle pair being very long, more than four times as long as 

 the short outermost pair. 



First primary flight-feather much shorter than the second, 

 which is somewhat shorter than the tenth • fifth slightly the 

 longest, 



