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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



OUR FIRST PEAHEN. 

 Rive- ford in southern Ceylon: elephant and sanibai 



sjiletidens), hybrid Junglefowl, (Gnllus varitis 

 -\- G. gallus; and G. lafaijettei -\- G. gallus), 

 Javan Junglefowl, (Gallus varius), Bornean 

 Fireback Pheasant, (Lophura nohilis), Bornean 



Crestless Fireback, {Aco- ^-^ 



mus pyronotus) , Crested 

 Wood Partridge, (Rollulus 

 roulroul) and Nicobar Pig- 

 eon, {Caloenas nicobarica) . 



Within the limits of tills 

 article I can present onlj^ .1 

 resume of the work of thi- 

 expedition. Before we left 

 New York we decided tcn- 

 tativel}'^ to include in tin- 

 monographic work, twenty- 

 two genera of birds. Suc- 

 cess attended our efforts to 

 such an extent that we were 

 able to find and study everii 

 one of these groups. In the 

 present article I shall deal 

 only with our discovery of 

 these two and twenty genera. 



Mrs. Beebe and the writer „.,,»,.,. 



HAUNT 



left New York for London Treeless zon 



on December 26, 1909, and 

 were joined at Port Said by 

 the artist Mr. Horsfall, who 

 remained with the expedi- 

 t i o n for the ensuing s i x 

 months. 



The first field work of the 

 expedition was undertaken 

 in Ceylon, where six weeks 

 were spent. At Colombo we 

 were most hosjoitably enter- 

 tained by Dr. Willey, well 

 known in American scientific 

 circles. He aided our search 

 in every way and is respon- 

 sible for much of our suc- 

 cess in this island. From 

 Colombo we made two trips, 

 one to Kandy and the cen- 

 tral mountainous portion of 

 the island, and the second 

 to the Yala Game Sanctu- 

 aries on the extreme southern coast. 



The Peafowl, (Pavo), Ceylon Junglefowl, 

 (Gallus) and Spurfowl, (GalUperdix) were 

 thoroughly studied hj means of series of skins, 



OF THE BLOOD AND IMPEYAN PHEASANTS. 

 : of the eastern Himalayas, looking toward Kinchinjiin 



