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tail-feathers are more or less rufous and not entirely black. In 

 the variety called G. oatesi they are rufous throughout. 



This race, which occupies the country between the areas 

 inhabited by G. horsfieldi and G. lineatus, is not only perfectly 

 intermediate between those two forms, but is, so far as the few 

 skins in the British Museum show, excessively variable. It was 

 regarded by Blyth (J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 8 17; "Cat. p. 244 ; Birds 

 Burm. p. 149) as a hybrid between the two. He showed, and he 

 was, I think, right, that there is a complete passage from one 

 species to the other in Arrakan. Oat^ ascertained that G. cuvieri 

 occurs throughout the Arrakan bills, buc his specimens vary so 

 much that two of them are distinguished by Ogilvie Grant as a 

 different subspecies, G. oatesi. Of the two males (one collected by 

 Gates, the other received from the Indian Museum) referred to 

 G. oatesi, one has white rump -bars and no white streaks on the 

 breast, as in G. "horxficldi ; the other has no white bars on the 

 rump, but it has white streaks on the breast as in G. lineatus. 



Habits, $c. " 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 great speed, and takes wing unwillingly. The 

 male during the breeding- season makes a curious drumming sound 

 with his wings, as a challenge to other cocks. The breeding-season 

 commences in March and is over by the end of April. The nest 

 is merely a hollow in the ground, lined with a few dead leaves, 

 under a shrub or at the foot of a tree. The eggs, which are seldom 

 more than seven in number, are of a pale buff colour" (Oates). 

 They measure about 1/85 by 1/45. 



1341. Gennaeus andersoni. Anderson's Silver Pheasant. 



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



Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. (570, pi. liii ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 319. 

 Nycthemerus andersoni, Blyth fy Wald. Birds Burm. p. 149. 

 Euplccamus crawfurdi, apud Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 437 ; Hume 



fy Marsh. Game B. i, p. 203, pi. ; id. Cat. no. 811 quat. ; nee Gray. 

 Gennaeus andersoni, Oyilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 306; Gates, 



Journ. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 112. 

 Gennseus davisoni (G. hcrsfieldi, subsp.), Oyilvie Grant, t. c. p. 304. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, and crest black with 

 purplish or green gloss ; leathers of the upper surface marked on 

 each web with subequal curved concentric black and white bars ; 

 quills and tail-feathers rather irregularly barred with black and 

 white, the black bars disappearing on the inner webs and tips of the 

 middle tail-feathers; lower parts black with bluish metallic gloss. 



Female of typical form unknown. That of a variety from Tenas- 

 serim only differs from G. lineatus in being larger and in having 

 much broader lanceolate white stripes on the lower surface. 



Bill pale green (Elliot}, pale bluish horny (Davison) ; facial 

 skin crimson ; irides brown ; legs and feet greyish (Elliot), dark 

 pinkish fleshy (Davison). 



