96 Mr. E. W. Oatcs on the 



plate in the Monograph being based on a native drawing 

 sent by Anderson, and the description in the Monograph 

 on a skin also sent by him. 



I also pointed out that Anderson had sent to the British 

 Museum the skin of a Pheasant, of which he remarked : — 

 " On the second expedition of 1875, I procured another 

 male, somewhat younger than the type, but agreeing with it 

 in all essential details, and this specimen is now in the 

 British Museum." Under these circumstances I accepted 

 Anderson's specimen as representing G. andersoni. 



The acquisition, however, of a skin of the Pheasant sent by 

 Colonel Gr. Rippon to the British Museum has now cleaied 

 up the matter. This skin agrees exactly with Elliot's de- 

 scription in the P. Z. S., with his plate in the Monograph, 

 and with Anderson's plate of the type specimen. It proves 

 that the specimen sent by Anderson to the British Museum 

 is not one of G. andersoni, as I had supposed it to be, but of 

 a species which Mr. Ogilvie-Grant has rightly considered to 

 be distinct, and has named G. davisoni. 



In the male of G. andersoni the legs are deep red. The 

 feathers of the upper plumage throughout are black, marked 

 with white bands, which run parallel to the margins of the 

 feathers, and form from two to four spoon-shaped figures 

 on each feather, the black bands being much broader than 

 the white interspaces. The sides of the neck are covered 

 with scale-like markings. The whole lower plumage is 

 black, with the exception of some white streaks on the sides 

 of the breast. The wings and tail are black, obliquely 

 marked with white, the three outer pairs of tail-feathers 

 being almost entirely black. Tail 12 inches; wing nearly 

 10 inches. 



The exact locality from which Anderson's type specimen 

 (a live bird) was brought is not known. The specimen sent 

 by Colonel Rippon was shot on the Kachin Hills, thirty 

 miles east of Bhamo, at a police post called Warar Bum, 

 which is situated at an elevation of 6000 feet, in May. The 

 female of this species is unknown. 



