42 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
formed by the white ends of the greater wing-coverts and 
secondaries ; throat and fore-neck black; sides of the neck 
and belly white ; lower back and rump black, barred with white; 
tail broadly barred with whitish-grey and chestnut. Total 
length, 32°5 inches ; wing, 8°8 ; tail, 19; tarsus, 2°8. 
Adult Female.—General colour of the plumage _ pale-drab, 
barred, mottled, and marked with black on the upper-parts and 
spotted on the breast; belly mostly white, flanks margined 
with white; back and sides of neck uniform greyish-drab, 
throat and fore-neck black ; outer tail-feathers mostly chestnut 
with black and white tips. Total length, 20 inches; wing, 8; 
tail,:7 “yes tarsus, 255. 
Range.— Mountains of South-eastern China. 
Habits.—-This truly magnificent Pheasant was first discovered 
by Swinhoe, in the mountains at the back of Ningpo, in the 
province of Che-Kiang. Subsequently it was met with by Abbé 
David in Western Fo-kien, where, like the Silver Pheasant, it 
lives in the wooded mountains, and is far from common, 
being constantly on the move from place to place, and some- 
times remaining away for whole years without revisiting its 
original habitat. 
Eggs. (Laid in confinement.)—Creamy-buff ; shell smooth 
and fine. Average measurements, 1°7 by 1°3 inch. 
Il. MRS. HUME’S PHEASANT. CALOPHASIS HUMIA. 
Callophasis humie, Hume, Stray Feathers, ix. p. 461 (1880) ; 
Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 715, pl. 51 ; Hume, Str. 
Exile p..302 (1389). 
Phasianus humie, W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1891, p. 152; Ogilvie- 
Grant, ‘Cat. B, Brit. Mus. xxii.ps3354 1894). 
Adult Male.—Differs chiefly from C. e//io/¢ in having the neck, 
upper mantle, and chest glossed with purplish steel-blue, like the 
band across the lesser wing-coverts, but darker ; the breast- 
feathers chestnut, with s¢ee/ gloss and fery orange-red margins ; 
