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about this Pheasant in a wild state. 

 Messrs. David and Oustalet remark that 

 it lives on wooded mountains, and that 

 its cry may be rendered by the syllable 

 " oua^^ twice repeated. It occurs in 

 South-western and Central China. 



In the British Museum there are several 

 eggs of this Pheasant, some of which were 

 taken in China in May and some laid 

 in captivity in the London Zoological 

 Gardens. Those taken in China are 

 glossy, but those laid in the Gardens are 

 dull. In shape they are regular ovals and 

 the ground-colour is reddish buff. All 

 the eggs are thickly speckled with reddish 

 brown. In length they measure from 2-01 

 to 2*27, and in breadth from i"46 to 

 1-67. 



The male resembles the male Grey- 

 bellied Horned Pheasant in many respects. 

 The black band round the head and the 

 band bordering the throat are, however, 

 much broader ; the spots on the upper 

 plumage are pearl-grey instead of white ; 

 the longer tail-coverts are brown, mar- 

 gined with maroon \ and the whole lower 

 plumage, with the sides of the body, is 

 crimson, with large oval grey spots. 



The female has the upper plumage, the 

 closed winejs and tail a mixture of black 



