46 LLOYDS NATURAL HiSTORY. 
Amherst’s Pheasant, and the male hybrid is an extremely 
handsome bird [see Elliot, Monogr, Phasian. 11. pl. xvii. (1872)]. 
Hybrids have also been produced between this species and 
the domestic Fowl (Bantam) ; the Common Pheasant (P. col 
chicus); and Reeves’s Pheasant (P. veevesz) ; the last being a 
large, handsome bird, with almost the entire plumage dull pur- 
plish Indian-red. 
Eggs. (Laid in confinement.) — Pale creamy-buff; shell 
rather fine, smooth, and glossy. Average measurements, 1°75 
by 1°35. mich. 
SUB-SP. @ SCHLEGEL’S GOLDEN PHEASANT. CHRYSOLOPHUS 
OBSCURUS. 
Phasianus pictus obscurus, Schl. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. p. 152 
(1865). 
Thaumatlea abscura, Eliot, Monogr. Phasian. 11. pl. xvi. (1872). 
Chrysolophus obscurus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 
341 (1893). 
It is extremely doubtful whether this bird has any right 
to even sub-specific rank. Probably it is merely a domestic 
variety of the Golden Pheasant, having never been obtained, so 
far as I am aware, in a wild state. 
Adult Male—Differs from C. fzctws in having the sides of the 
head, chin, and throat bvowzish-black, the shoulder-feathers 
similarly coloured, but slightly tinged with red, the outer webs 
of the flight-feathers devoid of buff margins, and ¢he middle pair | 
of tail-feathers pale brown, obliquely barred and marked with | 
black like the second pair. 
Adult Female. 
ample of this bird. 
II. LADY AMHERST’S PHEASANT. CHRYSOLOPHUS AMHERSTIA: | 
Phasianus amherstia, Leadb. Tr. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 129, pl. 15 | 
(1828). 
Said to differ from the female of C. pictus | 
in being generally darker in plumage, especially on the sides | 
of the head and throat. I have never examined a female ex- | 
