320 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



I have not had the opportunity of examining specimens of this Pheasant, 

 the only portion of the plumage I have seen being the tail of a male sent me 

 some years ago by Colonel Lowndes from Bhamo, in Independent Burmah. 

 The female does not appear to be known. 



Nothing is known regarding the habits of this Pheasant. It has been 

 obtained in Independent Burmah on the borders of Yunnan and again at 

 Dargwin, a police-station about eighteen miles north of Pahpoon in 

 Tenasserim. 



It seems doubtful what Phasianus crawfurdi (Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. 

 Kingd. viii. p. 27) really is; and I do not think that it is to be unhesi- 

 tatingly identified with the present species. The description is based on a 

 female bird which was said to measure only fourteen inches in length : no 

 female of this latter could possibly measure only fourteen inches in length ; 

 for even the female of E. lineatus, a considerably smaller bird, measures 

 twenty inches. 



677. EUPLOCAMUS VIEILLOTI. 



VIEILLOT'S FIREBACK PHEASANT. 



Gallophasis vieilloti, G, R. Gray, Gen. Birds, iii. p. 498. Euplocamus vieilloti, 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 118; Hume, S. F. v. p. 119; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. 

 p. 438; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 110; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 532. Euplocamus 

 Ignitus, Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 26 (part.) ; Bl B. Burm. p. 149 ; Elliot, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 124 (part.). 



Description. Male. Lower back and rump glistening fiery chestnut ; 

 remainder of the plumage metallic violet-blue, the sides of the body 

 streaked with white ; the centre of the abdomen and vent plain black ; 

 primaries brown ; secondaries black : central pair of tail-feathers white ; 

 the next pair nearly all white, the basal half of the outer web being brown ; 

 the next pair black, with the end of the inner web whitish ; the remaining 

 feathers black. 



The female has the chin and throat whitish, the whole head and neck 

 all round, the whole of the upper plumage, the wings and tail chestnut ; 

 the front and sides of the neck streaked with white ; the head, hind neck 

 and upper back plain, all the other parts finely vermiculated with black ; 

 breast black, each feather tipped with chestnut and the margins white; 

 upper abdomen, sides of the body and thighs black, each feather broadly 

 margined all round with white ; lower abdomen and vent white ; under 

 tail-coverts chestnut. 



Legs and feet vermilion-red ; claws, and in the male the spurs, whitish ; 

 the back of the tarsi in the female fleshy ; in the male the entire bill is 

 whitish or horny white and the cere brownish; in the female the upper 



