APPENDIX. 



SINCE the issue of Part I. of this work, 

 two additional species of Pheasant have 

 been observed within the limits of the 

 Indian Empire. One of these is an un- 

 described Silver-Pheasant, the other is a 

 well-known Chinese Pheasant of great 

 beauty. The first I shall term 



72A. WICKHAM'S SILYER- 

 PHEASANT. 



Gennaus wickhami, n. sp. 



MALE : The mantle, back, and the visible 

 portions of the closed wings black, finely, 

 but irregularly, vermiculated and speckled 

 with pale buff; the feathers of the rump 

 and the upper tail-coverts plain black, 

 without vermiculations, but very broadly 

 fringed with white. 



FEMALE : Not known. 

 VERNACULAR NAMES \-Yit, Burmese. 



A MALE of this species was sent me- by 

 my friend Mr. P. F. Wickham, last year, 



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