Silver- Pheasants of Burma. 97 



2. Genn^eus rufipes. 



Gen-nans andersoni apud Oates, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. x. p. 112 (1895). 



Germans rufipes Oates, Manual Game-Birds India, pt. i. 

 p. 363 (1898). 



This Pheasant appears to be confined to the Ruby-Mines 

 district and to be abundant round the town of Mosrok. In 

 addition to the type specimen, which I myself procured at 

 Mogok, I have examined others from the same neighbour- 

 hood, lent me by the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



The male has the legs deep red. The feathers of the 

 upper plumage throughout are white, marked with four or 

 five black lines, which run parallel to the margins of the 

 webs and form spoon-shaped figures on each feather, the 

 black and white bands being about equal in width. The 

 sides of the head and neck are covered with scale-like 

 markings. The wings and tail are black, obliquely banded 

 with white, the inner webs of the middle pair of tail-feathers 

 being almost entirely white. The lower plumage is deep 

 black, with some white streaks on the sid^s of the breast. 

 The tail in adults reaches a length of 20 inches. The wing 

 measures 10' 5 inches. 



The female, for a specimen of which I am indebted to 

 Mr. Rothschild, has the legs deep red, the upper plumage 

 and wings umber-brown with paler margins, the outer webs 

 of the primaries mottled with pale brown. The lower 

 plumage is dark umber-brown, each feather having two or 

 three large irregular and somewhat V-shaped ochraceous 

 bands. The tail is irregularly and obliquely banded with 

 rufous, ochraceous, and black. Length of tail 10 inches, 

 of wing 9 inches. 



The females in this species and the next are of the same 

 type, but in the female of G. jonesi the lower plumage is 

 black and the V-shaped marks are white. 



3. Genn.eus jonesi, sp. now 



Gennaus nycthemerus apud Ogilvie- Grant, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 606. 



I have much pleasure in naming this handsome species 



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