124 On a netv Species of Pheasant from Burma. 



found in other islands of the archipelago, and appears to be 

 resident. 



72. Charadrius fulvus Gm. ; Wald. & Lay. Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 105. Negros {Layard). 



73. NuMENius PH^opus Linn. ; Steere, List Birds & 

 Mamm. Philipp. p. 26 (1890). Negros. 



IX. — On a New Species of Pheasant from Burma. 

 By Eugene W. Gates, F.Z.S. 



"When I visited the Ruby Mines in 1895, I observed the 

 skins of a pair of Pheasants in the possession of Mr. F. 

 Atlay, the manager of the mines. I identified them with 

 Calophasis humice, and asked Mr, Atlay to send them to the 

 Natural History Museum, South Kensington, which he 

 kindly did. 



Not long after, my friend Major G. Rippon procured a pair 

 of the same Pheasant (Ibis, 1897, p. 5) at Kalaw, a locality 

 about 150 miles south of the Ruby Mines. He also 

 generously placed these specimens in our National collection. 



Quite recently I have had occasion to study the Indian 

 Pheasants, and I came to the conclusion that these Pheasants 

 from the Ruby Mines and Kalaw were quite distinct 

 from C. humice of Manipur. On drawing the attention of 

 Mr. Ogilvie Grant to this subject, he produced a copy of a 

 very recent j)aper in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal ' by Mr. F. Finn, of the Indian Museum, in which 

 that gentleman has brought to notice one or two prominent 

 differences between the Manipur and the Burmese species of 

 Calophasis. 



I propose to name the Burmese bird Calophasis burman- 

 nicus, and proceed to point out its characters in a tabular 

 form. 



This comparison has been made between fully adult males 

 of the two species. Younger males show the same characters, 

 but not in such a distinct manner. 



The females of the two species do not appear to me to 

 differ from each other. 



