62. MRS. HUME'S BARBED 

 BACKED PHEASANT. 



Calophasis humice, HUME. 



MALE : The feathers of the back and rump 

 blue narrowly margined with white. 



FEMALE : All the tail-feathers, except 

 the middle pair, chestnut tipped with a 

 double band of black and white. 



VERNACULAR NAME : Loi-nin-koi, Mani- 

 pur. 



THIS lovely species was discovered by Mr. 

 Hume in Manipur in 1881. The only 

 two birds of this species which he was fortu- 

 nate enough to obtain in that country were 

 brought in to him by natives, and conse- 

 quently Mr. Hume acquired no personal 

 knowledge of the habits of this Pheasant. 

 What little he was able to learn about 

 this bird from the natives is summed up 

 in the following note : " According to the 

 accounts of my savages these birds live in 

 dense hill forests at elevations of from 

 2500 feet (the height of the lower end of 

 the Manipur plain, or, as it is miscalled, 

 valley) to fully 5000 feet. They prefer 



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