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b". Tail up to 2") inches. Ear-coverts and adjacent 

 parts of the sides of the neck, for a space of 



about 2 inches, pure white G.jonesi. 



b '. Upper plumage black, vermiculated transversely 

 with white, each feather marked with a sub- 

 terminal pale blue baud and a white fringe . . G. nisbetti. 

 I). Legs brown, horn-coloured, flesh-coloured, or 

 greenish, never red. 

 c'. Rump-feathers not fringed with white. 



c". Whole upper plumage uniformly and more or 

 less transversely vermiculated with hue close 



black and white lines G. lineatus. 



</". Whole upper plumage marked with black 

 and white lines, which run parallel to the 

 margins of the feathers, each pair forming 



a spoon-shaped figure G. sharpil. 



d'. Rump-feathers fringed with white. 



e". Rump-feathers merely fringed, not ver- 

 miculated. 



c" . Mantle and back plain black G. hnrsfiehli. 



(/'". Mantle and back transversely vermiculated. G. wkkhami. 

 f. Rump-feathers not only fringed, but also 

 vermiculated. 

 e'". Mantle and back more or less transversely 

 vermiculated. 

 a*. Fringe and vermiculation next to it 

 almost, if not quite, in contact. 

 «'. Lower plumage streaked with white. . G. oatesi. 



b'. Lower plumage entirely black G. cuoieri. 



b 4 . Fringe and vermiculation next to it 

 divided by a black band as bioad as the 



fringe (,'. wittiamsi. 



f". Mantle and back marked with curved 

 lines parallel to tin' margins of the 

 feathers, each pair forming a spoon- 

 shaped figure G. davisoni. 



1 . (i EN N i:US ANDERSONI. 



Euplocamus andersoni Elliot, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 137 ; id. 

 Monogr. Phasianidae, ii. pi. xxii. (1870-72) ; Anderson, 

 Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 678, pi. liii. (1878). 



in my ' Manual ' (pt. i. p. 338) I pointed out that 

 Dr. Elliot had described this species in two perfectly irre- 

 concilable ways — the description in the P. Z. S. and the 



