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pale chestnut with white streaks, the remaining lower plumage rich chestnut 

 streaked with white ; base of the hind neck and the back olive brown with 

 white arrow-head-shaped marks ; wings, coverts, lower back, rump and the 

 shorter upper tail coverts olive brown, the feathers edged paler; longer 

 upper tail coverts yellowish white, barred with black ; six outer pairs of tail 

 feathers blackish, broadly barred with white, each white bar having another 

 black bar within it ; between the white bars there are marks of chestnut ; the 

 next pair similar, but the terminal half of the inner web yellowish, vermiculated 

 with black ; central pair wholly yellowish white on inner web, the outer web 

 vermiculated with black. In the male the irides are reddish hazel ; bill green, 

 turning to dusky at the tip and at the base of the culmen ; bare skin of the 

 head rich crimson ; legs plumbeous brown ; claws pale horn ; spur dark 

 brown. (Oates.) 



Length. 27 inches ; wing 9-3 ; tail 12*5; tarsus 3-2 ; bill from gape 1-35. 



Female, Length. 2o inches ; wing 8-5 ; tail 7*5 ; tarsus 3 ; bill from gape 

 1'3- 



Sab. British Burmah. Confined to Pegu, Tenasserim, north of Tavoy, 

 the south-western portions of Independent Burmah, and the N.-W. portions 

 of Siam. Hume says it is not a bird of high elevations. It is numerous at from 

 i,OOO to 3,000 feet. It is almost omnivorous, and feeds according to season 

 and locality on all kinds of berries, young leaves, green shoots and flower 

 buds. The breeding season commences in March and is over by the end of 

 April. The nest is merely a hollow scratched in the ground and thinly lined 

 and sprinkled with dry leaves, placed under a shrub, or at the foot of a large 

 tree. Eggs, 7 8, of a pinkish stone colour, minutely pitted all over. Size, 

 r8i to 2-03 by 1-4 to 1-52 in width. 



1204. EuplOCamuS Cuvieri (Temm.), Oates, Sir. F. iii. p. 343; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. I IO ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds i. p. 2Oi, pi.; 

 Sanderson, Str. F. viii. p. 493 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 318. Lophopho- 

 rus Cuvieri (Temm. PI. Col.), Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 166 (note). Nycthe- 

 merus Cuvieri, Blyih, B. Burm. p. 149. The ARRACAN SILVER PHEASANT. 



Like E. lineatus, but with no white streaks on the lower plumage, the breast 

 is strongly tinged with deep blue, and a tinge of blue runs all through the upper 

 plumage ; rump and upper tail coverts with broad white margins ; vermicula- 

 tions on the upper plumage are not so frequent nor so white, and there is less 

 white on the tail. ^^Q female is also like the female of E. lineatus, but differs 

 in having the feathers of the upper plumage margined paler ; the white stripes 

 on the lower surface are reduced in breadth, are buffy in colour, and are 

 almost entirely confined to the breast ; the whole back and wings are a more 

 or less rich rufous-olivaceous-brown everywhere, closely freckled with blackish 

 brown ; tail rufous, pale on the central tail feathers, deep chestnut on the four 

 exterior ones, and freckled only on the inner webs. 



