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Mr. P. F. Wickham, who procured it at Minken, about ten 

 miles south of Falam, in the Chin Hills, at an elevation of 

 some 5000 feet. This locality is in about 23° N. lat. and 

 94° E. long. 



The male bird (the female is unknown) has the legs brown 

 and the whole lower plumage deep black. The mantle, 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts are black, finely but 

 irregularly vermiculated and speckled with pale buff, while 

 the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts are plain 

 black, broadly fringed with white. Wing 9*5 inches ; tail 

 11 inches. 



9. Genn.eus oatesi. 



Gennccus oatesi Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. -303 

 (1893). 



The type of this species, a unique specimen, has the lower 

 plumage of G. Uneatas and the entire upper plumage finely 

 vermiculated with black and white, the feathers of the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts being fringed with white. 



This specimen came to the British Museum from the 

 Zoological Society of London, and is said to have been 

 sent from Arrakan by Capt. Bogle. 



When writing my f Manual/ 1 carelessly omitted to notice 

 this type, and described in its place two Silver-Pheasants 

 that my collectors had obtained in the Arrakan Hills, Avhich 

 must be assigned to G. cuvieri. My article on G. oatesi in 

 the ' Manual' (pt. i. p. 348) must therefore be cancelled and 

 the present note substituted for it. 



10. Genn^eus cuvieri. 



Lophophorus cuvieri Tcmm. PI. Col. v. pi. 10 [no. 1] 

 (1820). 



Euplocamus cuvieri Hume & Oates, Stray Feathers, iii. 

 p. 166 (footnote, 1875) ; Hume & Marshall, Game-Birds 

 India, i. p. 201 (1878). 



Gennaus cuvieri Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. 

 p. 303 (1893). 



I wrote on this species with much doubt in my ' Manual,' 

 and I am now fully convinced that the Pheasants that my 



