GENNAEUS. OO 



Gennaeus horsfieldi (Gray}. 



Gallophasis horsfieldi, Mitchell, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, Aves, pi. cxlix. 



tig. 1. 

 Euplocamus horsfieldi, Hume 8f Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. 197 (1879) ; 



Oates cd. Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 416 (1890). 

 Gennaeus horsfieldi, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 302 (1893) ; Gates, 



Game Birds Lid. i. p. 334 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 35 (1899). 



The eggs of the Black-breasted Kalij Pheasant vary from 

 pinkish buff to reddish cream-colour. Many specimens are thickly 

 speckled with white calcareous matter. They measure from 1/8 to 

 2'05 in length, and from 1/4 to 1*5 in breadth. 



3. [Assam.] Gould Coll. 



2. Khowang, Dibrughur, 22nd March Hume Coll. 



(J. R. Cripps). 



3. Sylhet, 10th March. Hume Coll. 

 1. Machi, Manipur, 3rd May (A. 0. Hume Coll. 



Hume). 



Gennaeus lineatus ( Vig.). 

 (Plate VI. fig. 5.) 



Euplocamus lineatus, Hume fy Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. 205 (1897) ; 



Oates ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 416 (1890). 

 Gennaaus lineatus, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 304 (1893) ; Oates, 



Game Birds Ind. i. p. 351 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 36 (1899). 



The eggs of the Lineated Silver Pheasant are of a pale reddish-buff 

 colour, and the pores are rather conspicuous, owing to their being 

 somewhat paler than the other parts of the shell. They measure 

 from 1-75 to 1-95 in length, and from 1-4 to 1/5 in breadth. 



1. Pegu Hills, 17th April (E. W. Oates). Hume Coll. 



4. Yonzalin River, Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



16th March (C. T. Bingham). 



Gennaeus nycthemems (Linn.). 



Phasianus nycthemerus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 19, tab. vii. fig. 4 



(1845-54). 

 Gennasus nycthemerus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 65. fig. 5 (1855-63) ; 



Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 307 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. 



p. 36 (1899). 



The eggs of the Chinese Silver Pheasant vary in colour from pale 

 buff to reddish buff. They measure from 1*9 to 2-15 in length, and 

 from 1*5 to 1'6 in breadth. 



6. [China.] 



3. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- 

 dens, London). 



3. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- 

 dens, London). 



Gould Coll. 

 Zool. Society. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



