THE TRUE PHEASANTS. 37 
The most typical waZe examples have most of the feathers 
of the wing-coverts, back, and especially those of the rump, 
margined on each side with a white black-edged band, instead 
of with fiery gold ; while the lighter parts of the middle tail 
feathers below the black cross-bars are usually paler, and often 
strongly dotted with black. 
Among the females no difference can be observed which is 
not merely individual or due to age. 
III. Crown of the head white. 
XVIII. REEVES’S PHEASANT. PHASIANUS REEVESII. 
Phastanus reevesit, J. E. Gray, in Griff. ed. Cuv. iil. p. 25 
(1829); id. Ill. Ind. Zool. i. pl. 39 (1830-32); Sclater in 
Wolf's Zool. Sketches, 2, pl. 33 (1861); Gould, B. Asia, 
vil. pl. 33 (1869) ; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. xi. (1872) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 337 (1893). 
Phasianus veneratus, ‘Temm. Pl. Col. v. pl. 5 [No. 485] 
(1830). 
Syrmaticus reevestt, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1220. 
(Plate XXTIT,) 
Adult Male.—Crown w/e, surrounded by a wide black band; 
chin, throat, and nape w/z¢e, margined below by a black ring 
which surrounds the neck ; upper-parts mostly cinnamon, each 
feather bordered with black, producing a scalelike appear- 
ance; wing-coverts white, broadly margined and centred with 
black ; chest, sides of breast, and flank-feathers somewhat 
similar, the two former with chestnut margins, the latter with 
buff extremities ; rest of under-parts black. Middle pair of 
tail-feathers enormously elongate, white down the middle, 
barred with black and chestnut, and brownish-buff on the 
sides ; outermost pair buff tipped with black. Total length, 
Gitcet 6 inches; wing, ro°3 inches; tail, 5 feet; tarsus, 3-1 
inches. 
Adult Femalee—Crown reddish-brown ; rest of head and neck 
buff except the ear-coverts and a band across the nape, which 
