Silver- Pheasants of Burma. 105 



This bird may therefore be said to inhabit the tract of 

 country lying between the Chin Hills and the Irrawaddy River 

 and between the 21st and 24th degrees of north latitude. 



A male and female of this species are in the British 

 Museum, catalogued under the name of G. cuvieri. They 

 were sent, probably alive, to the Zoological Society of London 

 by Capt. Bogle many years ago, and are said to have been 

 taken in Arrakan. The locality requires confirmation. 



The male has the whole upper plumage black, rather 

 coarsely vermiculated with pale buff in younger birds, finely 

 and sparingly with white in older birds. The feathers of the 

 rump are very bro:.dly fringed with white, the black space 

 between the first vermiculation and the fringe being as broad 

 as the latter. The inner webs of the primaries are almost 

 plain black in old birds, vermiculated with buff in those 

 that are younger. The tail-feathers are black, marked with 

 narrow oblique lines of pale buff, the three outer pairs being 

 almost entirely black. The lower plumage is Avholly black. 

 Tail about 10 inches in length. 



The female has the general colour of the upper plumage 

 umber-brown, minutely freckled with black. The lower 

 plumage is brown, each feather edged with greyish white 

 and with a conspicuous greyish white shaft-streak. The 

 two middle tail-feathers are chestnut, mottled with black ; 

 the others are black obliquely barred with white, the outer- 

 most becoming almost entirely black. Tail about 8 inches 

 in length. 



12. Gennjeus damson i. 



GfnruBUS davisoni Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. 

 p. 304 (1893). 



Gennaus andersoni (Elliot) ; Oates, Manual Game-Birds 

 India, pt. i. p. 337 (1898). 



The type specimen of this species was sent to the British 

 Museum by the late Dr. John Anderson, and I have already 

 explained the reasons which led me to treat it as a specimen 

 of G. andersoni and to suppress the name G. davisoni. 



By the acquisition of an undoubted specimen of G. ander- 



