new Species of Stiver- Pheasants . 163 



Crest blue-black. Sides of the head and neck delicately 

 squamated with black. The mantle and back marked with 

 numerous white stripes on a black ground. These stripes 

 are very numerous, some six or seven on each web, and 

 about half the width of the black interspaces. They are, 

 moreover, extremely twisted and jagged and the respective 

 pairs meet on the shaft in an involved manner. The rump 

 is similarly marked, but the black interspaces are wider and 

 the respective pairs of white stripes form somewhat quadrate 

 figures. The outermost white band also is much broader 

 than the others and forms a very conspicuous margin to the 

 feather. On the wing-coverts the white stripes are only a 

 quarter of the width of the black interspaces. The quills 

 of the wing are very narrowly barred with white. The tail 

 and the lower plumage resemble the same parts in G. atlayi. 

 Legs coral-red. 



Wing 10-2 inches, tail 16-25. 



? . — Whole upper plumage rufous brown. Lower plumage 

 black, the webs of each feather w r ith several very irregular, 

 jagged, and zigzag white bands, running obliquely and 

 meeting at the shaft in a very involved and confused manner. 

 The middle tail-feathers are nearly uniform brown ; the 

 others are barred and mottled with black, chestnut, and buff. 

 Legs coral-red. 



Wing 10 inches, tail 10'6. 



A male and female were shot by Major H. H. Harington 

 at Nilum Kha, in the Bhamo District, Burma, in March 

 1908. 



Gennceus granti, sp. n. 



d . — Crest blue- black. Sid(s of the head and neck 

 squamated with black. Mantle and back marked with 

 white stripes on a black ground, these stripes being smooth 

 and regularly curved and about one-third or one-fourth the 

 width of the black interspaces ; < ach pair forms on the 

 shaft a well-defined angle. The rump is similarly marked, 

 but both the white stripes and the black interspaces are 

 wider than on the back and the white stripes are oblique. 

 On the wing-coverts the white stripes arc only about one- 

 filth the width of the black interspaces. The wing-feathers 

 are black narrowly barred with white. The middle tail- 

 feathers are white on the inner web and at the tip of the 

 outer. The remainder of the feather is barred with white. 

 The other tail-feathers are barred with white, the bars 

 becoming progressively finer, more broken, and longitudinally 

 disposed as the outermost feather is approached. The lower 



