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green with crescent-shaped black tips, and 

 the lower plumage is white. Length 

 about 50 ; wing rather more than 8 ; tail 

 about 36 ; tail-feathers 18 in number. 

 The bare skin about the eye is blue. 



The female is a brown bird, and bears 

 a close general resemblance to the females 

 of many other species of Pheasants. The 

 tail of eighteen feathers distinguishes the 

 female of this species from the Barred- 

 Backed Pheasants and all others which 

 have sixteen tail-feathers. There remains 

 Stone's Pheasant, which occurs in the 

 same locality. From the female of this, the 

 female Lady Amherst's Pheasant may be 

 distinguished at once by the coarse black 

 and buff cross-bars which cover the mantle, 

 the back, the scapulars, the upper wing- 

 coverts, the inner secondaries, and the 

 whole lower plumage except the middle of 

 the abdomen ; and by the much longer tail, 

 measuring about fourteen inches. The 

 tail, as in the True Pheasants, is straight, 

 pointed, and much graduated. 



Seeing that Lady Amherst's Pheasant has 

 now been found on the Burmese frontier, 

 there is no reason why the Golden Phea- 

 sant (Chrysolophus pictus) should not also 

 occur within our limits. The male has 

 the crest of pointed feathers, about four 



