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The latter corresponds well with Elliot's 

 second, and more accurate, description ; 

 was procured in the same locality as the 

 type specimen, and, as Dr. Anderson 

 assures us, resembles the type. The 

 former was procured 450 miles away from 

 the locality where Anderson's Pheasant 

 was found ; and does not correspond at all 

 with Elliot's second description, where the 

 presence of beautiful fringes to the rump- 

 feathers is specially brought to notice. 



The above facts seem to prove con- 

 clusively that Dr. Anderson's specimen of 

 a Silver-Pheasant in the British Museum 

 from the Kachin Hills is the true 

 G. andersoni, and may be looked upon 

 as the co-type of that species, and further 

 that Mr. Hume's Tenasserim specimen, 

 so far from being G. andersoni, does not 

 even bear a superficial resemblance to that 

 bird, being entirely without the typical 

 white rump-fringes of Anderson's Silver- 

 Pheasant. It is therefore very disap- 

 pointing to find the author of the 

 " Catalogue " imposing a new name on 

 Dr. Anderson's example from the Kachin 

 Hills and following Mr. Hume in identi- 

 fying the Tenasserim bird with >G. andersoni. 



I shall now proceed to describe Ander- 

 son's Silver-Pheasant from the skin of the 



