THE TRUE PHEASANTS. 37 



The most typical male examples have most of the feathers 

 of the wing-coverts, back, and especially those of the rump, 

 margined on each side with a white black-edged ba7td, instead 

 of with fiery gold ; while the lighter parts of the middle tail 

 feathers below the black cross-bars are usually paler, and often 

 strongly dotted with black. 



Among the females no difference can be observed which is 

 not merely individual or due to age. 



III. Crown of the head white. 



XVIII. REEVES'S PHEASANT. PHASIANUS REEVESII. 



Phasiamis reevesii, J. E. Gray, in Griff, ed. Cuv. iii. p. 25 

 (1829); id. 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 39 (1830-32); Sclater in 

 WolPs Zool. Sketches, 2, pk t,2> (1S61); Gould, B. Asia, 

 vii.pl. 33 (1869) ; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. xi. (1872) ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 337 (1893). 

 Phasianus veneratiis^ Temm. PL Col. v. pi. 5 [No. 485] 



(1830). 

 Syrmaticus reevesii, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1229. 



{Plate XX III.) 

 Adult Male. — Crown white, surrounded by a wide black band; 

 chin, throat, and nape white, margined below by a black ring 

 which surrounds the neck ; upper-parts mostly citmainon, each 

 feather bordered with black, producing a scale-like appear- 

 ance; wing-coverts white, broadly margined and centred with 

 black; chest, sides of breast, and flank-feathers somewhat 

 similar, the two former with chestnut margins, the latter with 

 buff extremities ; rest of under-parts black. Middle pair of 

 tail-feathers enormously elongate, white down the middle, 

 barred with black and chestnut, and brownish-buff on the 

 sides ; outermost pair buff tipped with black. Total length, 

 6 feet 6 inches ; wing, 10*3 inches; tail, 5 feet; tarsus, 3*1 

 inches. 



Adult Female. — Crown reddish-broivfi ; rest of head and neck 

 buff except the ear-coverts and a band across the nape, which 



