71. ANDERSON'S SILVER 

 PHEASANT. 



Gemtceus atidersoiiiy (Elliot).* 



MALE : — The feathers of the mantle, upper 

 back and wing-coverts, black, with 

 3 to 6 fine zigzag white lines on each 

 web, running parallel to the margin of 

 the feather; the feathers of the lower 

 back and rump black, vermiculated with 

 white, with a white fringe and a pre- 

 ceding black band; the three outer 

 pairs of tail-feathers black. 



FEMALE :— Not known. 



Vernacular Name \—Yit, Burmese. 



The present species has caused great 

 confusion in the study of the Silver- 

 Pheasants by reason of the incorrect 

 manner in which it was first described. 

 I shall therefore proceed to lay before 

 my readers a brief history of Anderson's 

 Silver-Pheasant. 



This Pheasant was discovered by 

 Dr. Anderson in i868 in the Kachin Hills, 



* This is not the G. andcrsoni of Mr. Ogilvie 

 Grant (Cat. Birds B.M. vol xxii., p. 306), but the 

 G. davi soni o{ i\\a.t author (I.e. p. 304), 



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