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coloured feet of the other, might not 

 appear matters of any importance. More- 

 over, also, the Bhamo skin may have 

 been a badly prepared, or possibly defect- 

 ive, native skin ; for in those days, long 

 before Upper Burma was annexed, no 

 European would have been allowed to 

 go to the tracts where the Ruby-Mines 

 Pheasant is found. 



The male has the crest glossy black. 

 The upper plumage is black, each feather 

 of the mantle, upper back and wing- 

 coverts with five or six white lines on 

 each web, curved and parallel to the 

 margin of the feather. The white lines 

 on the visible parts of the quills in the 

 closed . wings are coarse and about a 

 quarter of an inch apart. The rump- 

 feathers are marked like those of the 

 back, but with finer and more frequent 

 white lines, and there is no trace of a 

 white fringe at the tips. The tail and the 

 lower plumage resemble the same parts 

 in the Lineated Silver-Pheasant. 



The female of this species differs from 

 the female Lineated Silver-Pheasant in 

 having the inner quills of the wing barred 

 with wavy, narrow lines of buff and 

 blotched with black, and in having the 



