THE BARRED-BACKED PHEASANTS. Al 
“A fight between two old cocks is a beautiful exhibition of 
activity and spirit. ‘They spring up five or six feet in the air 
before striking, and s ich is their agility, that the bird assailed 
hardly ever allows himself to be struck; so much the better 
for him, for it will be observed that the legs are garnished with 
spurs as long and sharp as those of a game-ccck. 
‘The last peculiarity of this species worth naming is that 
when they set out on a jaunt, they make for the highest point 
within range, whereas the Common Pheasant is accustomed to 
travel downwards along the course of the valleys.” 
Hybrids between Reeves’s and the Golden Pheasant have 
been bred in confinement, and the males are remarkably hand- 
some birds, having the general plumage reddish-brown. 
THE BARRED-BACKED PHEASANTS. GENUS 
CATOPHASIS: 
Calophasis, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. text to pl. xili. d¢s 
(1872). 
Type, C. e//iotd (Swinhoe). 
Characters similar to those given for the genus Phaszanus, 
but distinguished by having only s¢x/een tail-feathers, and by 
the males having the lower back and rump transversely. barred 
with black and white. 
Only two species are at present known. 
I. ELLIOT’S PHEASANT. CALOPHASIS ELLIOTI. 
Phastanus elliott, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 5503; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 335 (1893). 
Calophasis elliott, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. xiii. dzs 
(1872); Gould, B. Asia, vii. pl. 23 (1874). 
Adult Male—Mantle, shoulder-feathers, wing, chest, and 
breast fiery dronze-red, shot with gold; a white band down 
each side of the mantle; a dand of dark purplish-steel across 
the lesser wing-coverts, and two white bands across the wings 
