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the inner webs. Younger males have more white streaks on the lower 

 plumage, these extending to the whole breast and abdomen. 



The female has the forehead, crown and crest olive-brown tinged with 

 rufous ; chin and throat grey ; sides and back of the neck olive-brown 

 streaked with white ; front of the neck 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 arrowhead-shaped 

 marks ; wings, coverts, lower back, rump and the shorter upper tail- 

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

 yellowish white barred with black; the six outer pairs of tail-feathers 

 blackish, broadly barred with white, each of these white bars having 

 another black bar within it, and between the white bars marks of chestnut ; 

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

 vermiculatcd with black ; central pair wholly yellowish white on the inner 

 web, and the outer web vermiculated with black. 



The chickens have the crown of the head fulvous, albescent on the fore- 

 head ; there is a stripe from the base of the upper mandible to the eye, 

 also a black line from the posterior corner of the eye passing under the 

 ear-coverts and terminating at the back of the head; the whole lower sur- 

 face is white with a tinge of fulvous ; upper neck, back and rump black ; 

 two conspicuous fulvous-white lines run from the shoulder to the root of 

 the tail along the sides of the body, one on either side ; quills brown, much 

 freckled with fulvous, and the greater coverts largely tipped with white. 



Male : iris 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 plum- 

 beous brown ; claws pale horn ; spur dark brown. 



Female : legs dusky fleshy ; claws pinkish horn ; bill pale greenish, the 

 base of the culmen blackish ; eyelids plumbeous ; irides bright reddish 

 brown. 



Male : length 27 inches, wing 9'3, tail 12'5, tarsus 3'2, bill from gape 

 1*35. Female: length 20 inches, wing 8*5, tail 7'5, tarsus 3, bill from 

 gape 1'3. 



The Lineated Silver Pheasant occurs throughout Pegu and Tenasserim 

 as far south as Tavoy. On the eastern slopes of the Arrakan hills, which 

 are properly in Pegu, the next species occurs ; but I am not sure whether 

 the two may not be found together in this locality. Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay procured it on the Tonghoo hills, east of the town of Tonghoo. 



Eastwards it extends into Siam, and northwards up the Irrawaddy 

 valley into Independent Burmah as far as Bhamo, but how much further 

 north is not known. 



This Pheasant occurs abundantly wherever the ground is hilly or 

 broken, and it is most numerous on the higher and wilder parts of 

 the hills. It keeps to dense cover, seldom showing itself, runs with 



