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beginning with about the third pair from the middle, having a 

 subterminal black band that grows broader on each pair, until on 

 the outermost pair it nearly covers the feathers ; lower parts from, 

 middle of breast to vent chestnut, some breast-feathers with a 

 black crescentic subterminal spot and both breast- and flank- 

 feathers fringed with fiery red in some lights ; vent and lower 

 tail-coverts black with a greenish gloss. 



Female. General colour greyish brown, blotched with black and 

 mottled with pale sandy : crown rufous, with dark brown centres 

 to the feathers ; hind neck and upper back blotched with black, 

 the feathers with irregular arrowhead-shaped white shaft-spots ; 

 lower back and rump speckled and mixed with black and pale 

 rufous ; inner scapulars mostly black, and some large black blotches 

 on the wing-coverts, some of which have pale shafts, and the 

 median and greater coverts whitish tips ; primaries blackish brown 

 slightly speckled rufous, with white spots on the outer webs and 

 mottled tips ; secondaries black, mottled and banded with brown 

 arid tipped with rufous ; middle tail-feathers brown, speckled black, 

 with black and whitish cross-bands ; outer tail-feathers chestnut, 

 with imperfect black bars, each with a subterminal black band and 

 white tip ; lower parts pale brownish rufous, with whitish bars 

 and edges to feathers of the breast, upper abdomen, and flanks ; 

 lower abdomen whity brown ; under tail-coverts black, white, and 

 chestnut mixed. 



Hectrices 16. Bill of male greenish horny ; naked sides of face 

 intense crimson ; irides orange ; legs and feet pale drab (Hume). 



Length of a male 33 ; tail 20'5 ; wing 87 ; tarsus 2-75 ; bill 

 from gape 13. Females smaller : wing 8-25 ; tail 7 ; tarsus 2-3. 



Distribution. Hill-forests of Manipur, both north and south of 

 the valley, and a considerable area in Upper Burma, specimens 

 having been obtained by Gates near the Euby Mines east of 

 the Irrawaddv, and the occurrence of the species ascertained at 

 Tounggyi in the southern Shan States. Only a very few skins of 

 this species have hitherto been collected. 



1332. Phasianus elegans. Stone's Pheasant. 



Phasianus eleg-ans, Elliot, A. M. N. H. (4) vi, p. 312 (1870) ; id. 



Mon. Phas. ii, pi. 8 ; Offilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 329. 

 Phasianus sltideni, Anderson, Elliot, P. Z. 8. 1870, pp. 404, 408 



(descr. nulia) ; Anderson, P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 214 ; id. Yunnan 



Exped., Aves, p. 671, pi. lii. 



Coloration. Male. Crown and nape bronze-green ; remainder of 

 head, neck, and breast dark green, passing more or less into blue 

 at the sides of the neck ; upper back and innermost wing-coverts 

 chestnut, with wide paler tips ; scapulars the same, with black, 

 buff-mottled centres ; the upper feathers of the mantis notched at 

 the end ; lower back and rump-feathers dark green, broadly edged 

 with greenish grey, their centres black with a concentric buff 

 band; upper tail-coverts greenish grey, the outermost at each side 



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