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The legs are brown and the lower plumage is black streaked 

 with white. 



The female is of an umber-brown colour strongly tinged 

 with rufous. On the back of the neck and on the mantle 

 are numerous arrowhead-shaped white marks, while the 

 lower plumage is streaked with white, the streaks being not 

 more than one-sixth of an inch wide. Wing about 85 inches 

 in length ; tail about 7"5 inches. 



0. Genn^eus sharfii. 



Euplocamus crawfurdi apud Hume & Davison, Stray 

 Feathers, vi. p. 437 (1878) ; Hume & Marshall, Game-Birds 

 India, i. p. 204 (1878). 



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

 p. 306 (1893). 



GennfEus sharpii Oatcs, Manual Game-Birds India, pt. i. 

 p. 357 (1898). 



This species has a range which extends for fully four 

 hundred miles from north to south. Davison procured it 

 near Papun in Northern Tenasserim, Colonel Wardlaw 

 Ramsay in Karennee. Colonel G. Rippon has lately sent 

 to the Natural History Museum a male shot on Loi-Mai 

 Mountain (N. lat. 20° 30', E. long. 97° 30') at an elevation 

 of 6000 feet. Colonel Bingham has quite recently shown 

 me a skin procured by Mr. H. N. Thompson at Kengtung, 

 and Mr. Walter Rothschild has kindly sent me for inspec- 

 tion a fine male obtained at Mogok, in the Ruby-Mines 

 district. 



The male of this species requires no separate description, 

 inasmuch as it very closely resembles that of G. rufipes. 

 It differs in having the legs flesh-coloured, not red ; in 

 having the tail very much shorter, not exceeding 14 inches 

 in length ; and in having the inner webs of the primaries 

 mottled, not barred, with white. Wing about 10 inches in 

 length. 



The female, however, is of quite a different type to that of 

 G. rufipes, and closely resembles the female of G. lineatus, 

 from which it differs merely in being larger, in having the 



