LOPHOPHORUS. 95 



Length of male 30 to 36 ; tail 13-5-20 ; wing 10-5 ; tarsus 3-5 ; 

 bill from gape 1*6. Length of female 24 ; tail 10 ; wing 9 ; tarsus 3. 



Distribution. This Pheasant was originally obtained by Anderson 

 in Yunnan. It has since been found near Bhamo, around the 

 Ruby Mines, and through the Shan States to Northern Tenas- 

 serim, Davison having procured a male and three females that 

 are referred to this species about Kollidoo and Dargwin, north of 

 Pap won. 



But few specimens have been collected, and these show material 

 differences. The male obtained by Davison at Dargwin has white 

 stripes on the breast, and has the inner webs and tips of the 

 middle tail-feathers nearly white, as in G. lincatus, and is clearly 

 intermediate between that species and typical G. andersoni : the 

 tail is about 14 inches long. Yet another link nearer to G. lineatus 

 is furnished by a male collected by Wardlaw Ramsay in Karennee. 

 The skin of another male, from the typical locality Yunnan, 

 mentioned by Anderson as one of his original specimens, and sent 

 by him to the British Museum, is intermediate between G. andersoni 

 and G. horsfieldi, and is the type of Ogilvie Grant's subspecies 

 G. davisoni. A skin from the Ruby Mines has coarser markings 

 on the wings and a tail of nearly 20 inches. I strongly suspect 

 G. andersoni to be merely an intermediate race between G. lineatus 

 and the Chinese Silver Pheasant (G. nycthzmerus). 



Mr. Gates has sent to the British Museum a Pheasant from the 

 Shan States, that forms yet another link between the Chinese and 

 Burmese Silver Pheasants. In male G. nycthemerm from China 

 the upper surface is white, with narrow wavy concentric black 

 lines on the feathers ; the crown, crest, and lower parts black with 

 a purple gloss. The female is light rufous brown ; the crown and 

 crest darker, the lower parts paler, most of the feathers finely 

 vermiculated with buff, more coarsely barred on the wing and tail- 

 feathers. Bill greenish brown ; facial skin red ; legs and feet 

 scarlet. The male is about 40 inches long ; tail 24 ; wing 10'5 ; 

 tarsus 3*6 : female 20 inches long ; tail 10 ; wing 9. 



Genus LOPHOPHORUS, Temm., 1813. 



The Monal or Impeyan Pheasant is the type of this well-marked 

 genus, distinguished by the richly metallic plumage of the males, 

 which have either an elongate occipital crest or, in one species 

 (L. sclateri), all the feathers of the crown short and curled. The 

 bill is long and stout, with the culmen well curved, the tarsi 

 stout, feathered above, and armed in the male with a stout spur. 

 There is a naked space around each eye. The tail, of 18 feathers, 

 is well rounded at the end and a little shorter than the wing ; the 

 1st quill is considerably shorter than the 10th, and the 5th is 

 usually longest. 



Four species are now known, ranging throughout the Himalayas 

 from Afghanistan to beyond Assam, and thence to the provinces 

 of China lying east of Tibet. 



