■2i)i Secondary Sexual Characters in PJieasants 



BroHst feathers. The prnnted form of Silver j" adult breast and 

 Swinhoe </ adult breast feathers. Size degenerate. 



Patterns 

 F,. "BBBA " inter se, "M" ?, Hybrid. Swinhoe ?, PL XXIV, fig. 2. 

 Plate XXIV, fig. 14, a, b. Silver ^ , 8 month, PL XXIV, 



fig. :i 

 Silver ?, "/>" variety, PL ■ 

 XXIV, fig. 1. 



Colour 



Silver c/. 

 Swinhoe $. 



Breast feathens : the pointed form of Silver (/ and Swinhoe J' 



breast feathers. Size tlegenerate. 



Patterns 



Fi. " BBBA" inter se, "K" $ , Hybrid. Silver j", intcrscapsulars tran- 

 sition. 

 Swinhoe $ . 

 Silver ?,"£." 



Culour 

 Silver (/, transition. 

 Swinhoe %. 

 Breast feathers : the pointed form of Silver (/ and Swinhoe </ 

 breast feathers. Size degenerate. 



WING. (Plate XXV.) 



Fi. "BA,' % %. All very .similai- and level in colour, pattern, and form 



Hybrid. of Primaries, Secondaries and their respective coverts. 



Both Primaries and Secondaries are alike in pattern. 

 Numbei' of bands : same as Silver (/ adult secondary (Plate XXV, 



fig. 2b). Pattern, Swinhoe % (Plate XXV, fig. U). C'o/ow.r, Swinhoe ?. 



F.,. "BBA," $ $. Pattern, colour and form of Primaries and Secondaries 

 alike in all the birds. Resemblance closest to Silver cf 

 8 month transition secondary (Plate XXV, fig. 2«) with 

 a possible trace of Silver $ secondary (Plate XXV, fig. 1) 

 and Swinhoe ? lateral pattern (Plate XXIII, fig. 36). 



F-j. "BBBA." No change, hybrid and very level in colour, pattern, 

 and form; replicas of F„ "BBA" ? ?. Plate XXV, 

 figs. 6, 7. 



