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1466. EU. NYCTHEMERUS (PL Enl. 123, 124). 



Syn. Phaslanits nycthemerus, L. 



Nycthemerus argentatus, Swainson. 

 Hab. China. 



A. Male. Purchased (1845). B. C. Females, presented 

 by Babu Rajendra Mallicka (1849). 



1467. Eu. LiNEATUs (Belanger, Foij. Ind. Orient., ZooL, pi. 8, 9). 



Syn. Phasianus lineatus, Latham. 



Ph. Reynaudii, Lesson. 



Ph. fasciatvs, McClelland, Calc. Journ. N. H. II, 146. 

 Yeet, Arakan. 

 Hab. Burmese countries (Arakan, Tenasserim, Pegu). 



A. Male. B. Female. From the Barrackpore Mena- 

 gerie (1844-6). — Series grading into the following species. 

 No. 1463. C. Male. (Back darker, white stripes on flanks 

 reduced, but no whitish margins to rump-feathers ; vide 

 Jardine and Selby, Oni. III., n. s , pi. 12). J). Female 

 (white medial stripes to feathers of mider-parts, but no 

 white margins). Arakan. Capt. Phayre (1843-5). £" Male 

 (still darker, no white stripes on flanks, and rump-feathers 

 margined with whitish). Barrackpore Menagerie (1844). 

 F. Male (again much darker, no white stripes on flanks, 

 and the rump-feathers more conspicuously margined with 

 whitish). Barrackpore Menagerie (1844). G. Female. 

 (Hardly distinguishable from that of next, except by the 

 characteristic whitish interior webs of medial rectrices). 

 Arakan, Capt. Phayre (1844). //.Male. (Like No. 

 1468, except that there is a slight speckling of whitish 

 on the upper-parts, and the inner or upper web of the 

 medial rectrices is still white ; in which last respect only it 

 diff'ers from Lophophorus Cuvieri, Tern., GritHth's Trausl. 

 An. Kingd. VIII, p. 154, pi. ). From Arakan. Pre- 

 sented by the Curator (1847). 



1468. Eu. HoRSFiELDi (Gray's III. Gen. Birds, pi. ). 



Syn. Gallophasis Ilorsfieldi, G. R. Gray. 



Mufhura ; Purple Pheasant of Europeans. 

 Hab. Asam ; Sylhet. 



A. Male. B. Female. Asam. Major Jenkins (1844). 



C. Male. D. Females. Presented by the Curator (1846). 



1469. Eu. MELANOTUS, Blyth (noticed J. A. S. XVII, 694). 



KaliJ Pheasant of Darjiling. 

 Hab. Sikim. 



A. Male. B. Female. Mr. Webb (1845). C. Male. 



D. Young male. E. Chick, ^ grown. Presented by the 

 Curator (1846-9). 



1470. Eu. ALBOCRisTATUS, (Gould's ' Centwy,' pi. 66, 67). 



Syn. Phasianus albocristatus, Vigors. 



