54 PllASlANIN^. 



2;^„^//i ._2 5 inches ; tail ir2 ; wing 9-3; tarsus 3-4; bill from gape r6. 

 The /67;/a/(?— wing 8-5 ; tail 8-8. 



jjah. — Arracan Hills, extending northwards to Chittagong. Habits same 

 as last. 



81. Euplocamus Andersoni, Elliot, P. z. S. 187 1, p. 137; 



Anderson, Yunnan Exped.,\>. 670, pi. liii. ; Elliot, Mon. Phas, ii. pi. 22 ; Oatesy 

 B. Br. Burmah, ii. p. 319; Murray, Avif. Brit. Lid. ii. p. 543, No. 1204. 

 Euplocamus Crawfurdi, Hu77ie and Dav., Sir. F. vi. pp. 437, 521 ; JIume, 

 S/r. F. viii. p. 1 10 ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds i. p. 203, pi. — 

 Anderson's Silver Pheasant. 



Upper parts black, each feather having three or four white irregular lines, 

 running parallel to and meeting towards the edges ; secondaries black, with 

 broken irregular black lines, running lengthwise with the feather ; feathers of 

 the rump like the back, but fringed with white, which overlaps the feather 

 beneath and gives this part a beautiful silvery appearance ; top of head, length- 

 ened crest and entire under parts deep rich blue ; tail moderately long, 

 middle feather white, thickly covered with rather broad irregular black lines, 

 these most numerous on the outer web and towards the base, becoming less 

 on the inner web, and disappearing entirely at the tip and on the edge of inner 

 web • rest of tail feathers black, with fine broken lines of white, these 

 disappearing towards the tips ; primaries dark brown, marked with white lines. 

 (Elliott.') Hume says the characteristic points in which typical E. Crazv- 

 furdi=^E. Andersoni differs from E. lineatus are, first, the much coarser and 

 bolder character of the markings of the upper surface, which are all longitudi- 

 nal and niore or less parallel to the margins of the feathers, which are entirely 

 free from the fine more or less transverse markings or mottlings characteristic 

 of E. lineatus ; second, in the whole of the central tail feathers, except just at 

 the tip and margins of the inner webs, being boldly variegated black and white, 

 instead as in E. lineatus almost the whole of the inner webs and the terminal 

 half at any rate, of the outer webs being white or sullied white free from 

 niarkin"-s, and such markings as exist on the basal portions being fine. Bill 

 pale bluish horny; facial skin deep crimson; legs and feet dark pinkish 

 fleshy; irides brown. {Davison.) 



Length.— 10 inches ; tail 13-5 ; wing 1 1-5 ; tarsus 3-62 ; bill from gape i'55. 



//^^.—Tenasserim proper, in the hills at the N.-E. extremity. Dr. Anderson 

 also procured specimens on the confines of Upper Burma and Yunnan. 



82. Euplocamus Vieilloti {G. R. Gray), Sdatcr, p. Z. S., 1863, 

 p. 1 18 ; Hume andDav., Sir. F. vi. p. 438 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 1 10 ; Kelham, 

 Ibis, 188 1, p. 532; Gates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 320 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Hid. 

 ii p. S44> No. 1205. Gallophasis Vieilloti, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 498, 

 Euplocamus ignitus, Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 26 (part) ; Blyth, B. Burm., 

 p. 149; Elliot, Il'is, 1878, p. i24(part).—ViEiLL0T's Fire-back BiiEASANT. 



