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I am of opinion that when there is a 

 discrepancy of this kind between two 

 descriptions by the same author, we are 

 justified in accepting as correct the des- 

 cription that was taken from the actual skin 

 and not the one based on a native drawing. 



Fortunately, however, Dr. Anderson re- 

 lieved us from any doubt on the subject 

 by sending to the British Museum, in 

 1875, a skin of Anderson's Pheasant. Of 

 this specimen he says that it agrees with 

 the type in all essential details, but is 

 somewhat younger (Yunnan Exped., p. 

 670). This skin corresponds quite closely 

 with Mr. Elliot's second description, 

 especially in having beautiful white fringes 

 to the rump-feathers. 



It was Mr. Hume, many years ago 

 (" Stray Feathers," vi., p. 437), who first 

 erroneously identified a Silver-Pheasant 

 from Dargwin in Northern Tenasserim 

 with Anderson's Silver-Pheasant. In 1883, 

 when I was writing the " Birds of British 

 Burmah," I followed Mr. Hume, because 

 in those days there was nothing to guide 

 me to a different conclusion. 



The case is different now. With the 

 Hume Collection in this country, we are 

 able to institute a comparison between 

 the Tenasserim, and Dr. Anderson's, bird. 



