100 Mr. E. W. Oates on the 



miles east of Myitkyina. I name this species after its dis- 

 coverer, Capt. Nisbett. 



The characters which render this species so distinct are 

 the deep red legs and the white-fringed plumage of the back 

 and rump. The feathers of these parts are black, finely and 

 transversely vermiculated with from eight to ten fine zigzag 

 white lines, the lowest vermiculation being separated from 

 the white fringe by a beautiful pale blue band. The wings 

 are black vermiculated with white. The four outer pairs of 

 tail-feathers are almost entirely black ; the others are black 

 diagonally vermiculated with white, the inner web of the 

 central pair being mostly white. 



The irides are hazel ; the soft skin of the face is scarlet ; 

 the bill yellowish. The specimen has the tail 14 inches in 

 length ; the wing 10 inches ; the tarsus 33 inches. 



5. Genn.etjs lineatus. 



Phasianus lineatus Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 24. 



Euplocamus lineatus Elliot, Monogr. Phasianida?, ii. 

 pi. xxiii. (1870-72) ; Hume & Oates, Stray Feathers, iii. 

 p. 165 (1875) ; Hume & Marshall, Game-Birds India, i. 

 p. 206 (1878). 



Gennceus lineatus Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. 

 p. 304 (1893) ; Oates, Manual Game-Birds India, i. p. 351 

 (1898) ; lilanford, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, iv. p. 92 (1898). 



This well-known Pheasant occurs throughout the country 

 east of the Irrawaddy River from the coast-line to a little 

 above Mandalay. To the east this species is found in 

 IMoithern Tenasserim and in the lower hills which divide 

 Burma from the Shan States up to the Fort-Stedman road. 

 I have recently seen a specimen in Colonel Bingham's col- 

 lection which was shot by Mr. H. N. Thompson at Trans- 

 Salween Moukmai (N. lat. 20° and E. long. 98° 30') at an 

 elevation of 2000 feet. This Pheasant does not appear to 

 occur higher. 



The male may be recognised by its upper plumage, the 

 whole of which is very densely and more or less transversely 

 vermiculated with black and white, without a trace of fringes. 



