84 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY 
difficult of approach, besides being far less numerous. I have 
never seen more than three or four of the Burman Pea-Fowl 
together, whereas the Bengal birds unite in flocks of thirty, 
forty, or fifty. It haunts the thickest jungle, whether on level 
ground or on the sides of small hills, and is frequently found 
in the masses of elephant-grass which so commonly skirt the 
smaller brackish creeks and nullas of Arakan. A specimen 
with a full train is seldom seen except in the beginning of 
the rains, which is the season of courtship. About August 
they moult, drop their long ocellated tail-coverts, and assume 
the simpler green-barred ones. ‘The train appears again 
in the succeeding March or April; but the moulting of this 
bird appears to be irregular, and I have seen cock-birds with 
fine flowing trains in January and February. The hen incu- 
bates in the rains, but at uncertain periods ; the young, just 
hatched, have been brought to me at Moulmein at different 
times, from August till January.” 
Eggs.—Cannot be distinguished from those of P. cristatus. 
THE BLACK GUINEA-FOWLS. GENUS PHASIDUS: 
Phasidus, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1856.5 232: 
diype, ef. ice, Cassin. 
Head and neck naked, with the exception of a band of 
feathers along the middle of the head, commencing at the 
base of the bill, and a few small scattered plumes on the 
neck. 
Tail moderately long and rounded, probably composed of 
fourteen feathers.* Upper tail-coverts about two-thirds of the 
length of the tail. 
First primary flight-feather considerably shorter than the 
second, which is about equal to the tenth; fourth slightly the 
longest. 
* Both the examples of this rare bird in the British Museum have im- 
perfect tails. 
