294 Secondary Sexual Characters in Pheasants 



Breast feathers. The pointed form of Silver ^ adult breast and 

 Swinhoe ^ adult breast feathers. Size degenerate. 



Patterns 

 F,. "BBBA " inter se, "i/" ?, Hybrid, Swinhoe ?, PI. XXIV, fig. 2. 

 Plate XXIV, fig. 14, a, h. Silver </ , 8 month, PI. XXIV, 



fig. 3. 

 Silver ?, "Z>" variety, PI. 

 XXIV, fig. 1. 



Colour 



Silvered. 



Swinhoe $. 



Breast feathers: the pointed form of Silver J^ and Swinhoe J^ 



breast feathers. Size degenerate. 



Patteriis 



Fi. " BBBA" inter se, "K" $ , Hybrid. Silver </, interscapsulars tran- 

 sition. 

 Swinhoe $. 

 Silver ?,"5." 



Colour 

 Silver (/, transition. 

 Swinhoe $. 

 Breast feathers : the pointed form of Silver J^ and Swinhoe J* 

 breast feathers. Size degenerate. 



WING. (Plate XXV.) 



F^. ''BA," $ $. All very similar and level in colour, pattern, and form 



Hybrid. of Primaries, Secondaries and their respective coverts. 



Both Primaries and Secondaries are alike in pattern. 

 Number of bands : same as Silver (/" adult secondary (Plate XXV, 



fig. 26). Pattern, Swinhoe $ (Plate XXV, fig. 36). Colour, Swinhoe ?. 



F.2. "BBA," J $ . Pattern, colour and form of Primaries and Secondaries 

 alike in all the birds. Resemblance closest to Silver (/ 

 8 month transition secondary (Plate XXV, fig. 2a) with 

 a possible trace of Silver ? secondary (Plate XXV, fig. 1) 

 and Swinhoe ? lateral pattern (Plate XXIII, fig. 36). 



Fs. "BBBA." No change, hybrid and very level in colour, pattern, 

 and form; replicas of F, "BBA" $ ?. Plate XXV, 

 figs. 6, 7. 



