63. THE BURMESE BARRED- 

 BACKED PHEASANT. 



Calophasis burmannicus? GATES. 



MALE : The feathers of the back and 

 rump black broadly margined with 

 white. 



FEMALE : Undistinguishable from the 

 female Mrs. Hume's Barred-backed 

 Pheasant. 



VERNACULAR NAME \-Yit, Burmese. 



THE Burmese Barred-backed Pheasant is 

 allied to, but quite distinct from, the pre- 

 ceding species. So far as is known, the 

 present species occurs only on the hills 

 which lie partly in Burma and partly in 

 the Shan States, from the Ruby-Mines 

 district down to Kalaw in the Thamakan 

 State. It is probable that this species 

 occurs farther east, at Toungyi, for Mr. 

 A. H. Hildebrand informs me that he 

 once met with a Pheasant at that 

 place which resembled in shape the 



* I described this new species in the Ibis^ 

 1898, p. 124. 



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