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hoop. Northwards it seems to extend to Chittagong ; for Mr. Sanderson 

 writes that he is of the opinion that lie saw this Pheasant in that Province. 

 I observed this Pheasant only two or three times, and I had no oppor- 

 tunity of watching its habits ; it is, however, extremely unlikely that they 

 differ in any respect from those of the preceding species. 



676. EUPLOCAMUS ANDERSON!. 

 ANDERSON'S SILVER PHEASANT. 



Euplocamus andersoni, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 137 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. 

 p. 670, pi. liii. ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 22. Euplocamus crawfurdi, Hume 

 $ Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 437, 521 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 110 ; Hume $ Marsh. Game 

 Birds, i. p. 203, pi. 



Description. Male. Upper parts black, each feather having three or 

 more white irregular lines running parallel to, and meeting towards, the 

 edges ; secondaries black, with broken irregular white lines running length- 

 wise with the feather ; feathers of the rump like the back, but fringed with 

 white, which overlaps the feather beneath and gives this part a beautiful 

 silvery appearance ; top of head, lengthened crest, and entire underparts 

 very deep rich blue ; tail moderately long, middle feather white, thickly 

 covered with rather broad irregular black lines, these most numerous on 

 the outer web and towards the base, becoming less on inner web, and disap- 

 pearing entirely at the tip and on the edge of inner web; rest of tail- 

 feathers black, with fine broken lines of white, these disappearing towards 

 the tips; primaries dark brown, irregularly marked with white lines. 

 (Elliot.) 



The female does not appear to have been described. 



The characteristic points in which typical E. crawfurdi differs from E. 

 lineatus are, first, the much coarser and bolder character of the markings 

 of the upper surface, which are all longitudinal, more or less parallel to 

 the margins of the feathers, which are entirely free from the fine more or 

 less transverse markings or mottling characteristic of E. lineatus ; second, 

 in the whole of the central tail-feathers, except just at the tip and the 

 margins of the inner webs, being boldly variegated black and white, instead 

 of, as in E. lineatus, almost the whole of the inner webs and the terminal 

 half, at any rate, of the outer webs being white or sullied white, free from 

 markings, and such markings as exist on the basal portions being fine. 

 (Hume.) 



Length 30 inches, tail 13'5, wing 1T5, tarsus 3'62, bill from gape T55. 

 The legs and feet dark pinkish fleshy ; the bill pale bluish horny ; the 

 facial skin deep crimson ; the irides brown. (Davison) 



