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THE BARRED-BACKED PIIEASANTS., 43 
the belly and flanks ches/nut, the middle tail-feathers grey, with 
wide irregular mzxed bars of chestnut and black, the following 
pairs barred with black, and the ousermost pairs mostly black, 
greyish at tle base. Total length, 33°5 inches ; wing, 8°5 ; tail, 
20:0; tarsus, 2°5. 
Adult Female.— Differs chiefly from that of C. e//rof7 in having 
the throat and fore-neck devotd of blach. 
Range.—Lushai, Manipur, and Chin Hills; recently obtained 
near the Ruby Mines in Burma. 
Space unfortunately does not permit of my giving in full Mr. 
A. O. Hume’s excellent account [Stray Feathers, xi. pp. 461- 
467 (1880)] of how he obtained the first known examples of 
this beautiful Pheasant. The Manipur envoy, who acted as his 
guide during his travels in the Maharaja’s territories, was the 
proud possessor of a plume of feathers which he was entitled 
to wear as a mark of rank. Mr. Hume’s experienced eye in- 
stantly detected among this coveted decoration the tail-feathers 
of a Pheasant with which he was unacquainted, and after endless 
enquiries he ascertained that the bird was an inhabitant of the 
pathless hill jungles of Eastern Lushai and the southern border 
of Manipur, which had for long been subject to the ravages of the 
Kamhows, a fierce tribe, who invariably killed everyone they 
came across. Only one Manipuri of the many questioned had 
once seen this bird alive in the Jhiri Valley near the Lushai 
border ; to the Maharaja and others it was only known from 
the tail-feathers which filtered into Manipur through the agency 
of Kamhow refugees in Manipur. After much trouble, his 
Manipur guide obtained the services of a party of these Kam- 
how refugees, who had taken up their abode on the southern 
borders of the Manipur territory, and in the Eastern Lushai 
country, and by threatening to shoot the men of this party if 
they did not return with some of the Pheasants in a short time, 
entire specimens were at last obtained. Mr. Hume goes on 
to say, “Sure enough, within the week they returned with one 
