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India " (vol. i., p. 203), and Mr. Ogilvie 

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

 identify with Anderson's Silver-Pheasant. 

 I have said enough on the subject in 

 dealing with the latter species, and I can 

 only repeat my conviction that the two 

 birds are totally distinct. 



This seems the place to notice a 

 remark made by Mr. Hume some years 

 ago ("Stray Feathers," vol. vi., p. 521). 

 He assures us that he compared his 

 specimen of this species from Tenasserim 

 with a Pheasant from Bhamo and found 

 the two precisely similar. This Bhamo 

 specimen is not in the Hume Collection, 

 but it seems to me extremely probable 

 that the bird was not Anderson's Silver- 

 Pheasant, as Mr. Hume evidently pre- 

 sumed it to be, but a specimen of my 

 next species, the Ruby-Mines Silver- 

 Pheasant. This latter bird no doubt 

 occurs in the Bhamo District, as well as 

 in the Ruby-Mines District. The present 

 species and the Ruby-Mines bird are 

 certainly very much of the same type, 

 and might he considered alike by some 

 naturalists. To Mr. Hume, the coarser 

 markings, the longer tail and the red feet 

 of the one species, as against the finer 

 markings, the shorter tail and the flesh- 



