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could have been describing the Bronze- 

 backed Moonal, a species so rare, even 

 at the present day, that we only know it 

 from the skins of two males sent by Colonel 

 C. H. T. Marshall from a remote part of 

 the Himalayas, within the last twenty years. 

 No skin of the female of this species is 

 known to be in any European Museum, 

 so far as I am aware. 



Under these circumstances I am of 

 opinion that Latham's name should con- 

 tinue to be applied to the Common 

 Moonal-Pheasant, and that the rarer 

 species, the Bronze-backed Moonal-Phea- 

 sant, should be designated by Colonel 

 Marshall's name, L. chambanus. 



