CHRYSOLOPHUS 669 



chin, upper tliroat, and middle of lower abdomen warm buff ; rest of 

 under parts rich scarlet ; bill greenish yellow ; legs greenish horn ; 

 iris brown. Culnien 1*0, wing 7'7, tail 27 '0, tarsus 2' 7 inch. The female 

 has the head and upper back brown, barred with buff and black, the lower 

 back, rump and upper tail-coverts paler brown vermiculated with black ; 

 under parts buff, the chin and throat paler, the former all but the middle 

 of the abdomen barred with blackish ; middle tail feathers brown, irregu- 

 larly barred with black, the rest more rufoue, marked with buff, and barred 

 and mottled with blackish ; tail 14*0. 



Hob. The mountains of Western and Southern China; Koko- 

 nor ; south-east and south-west Kan-su. 



Inhabits the woods and the mountains at a moderate altitude, 

 and is a resident throughout its range. I have never seen any 

 eggs but those laid in confinement, which are uniform cream- 

 colour or pale buff, and measure about 1'26 by 1/6. 



932. LADY AMHERST'S PHEASANT. 

 CHRYSOLOPHUS AMHERSTLfE. 



Chrysoloplius amkerstice (Leadb.),. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 129, pi. 15 

 (1828) ; (Gould), B. of As. vii. pi. 20 ; (Elliot), Monogr. Phas. ii. 

 pi. xiv. ; (David and Oust.), Ois. Chine, p. 415, pi. 103 ; Ogilvie 

 Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxii. p. 342. 



Sng-ky, Chinese. 



ad. (China). Crown, sides of head, and throat blackish bronze-green ; 

 elongated occipital crest blood-red ; nuchal cape white, margined and 

 barred with black ; mantle, scapulars, fore neck, and breast deep green 

 margined with black ; lower back and rump black, tipped with dull 

 yellowish, and with a subterminal band glossed with green ; upper tail- 

 coverts white, barred with blackish and tipped with red ; middle tail- 

 feathers mottled and broadly barred with greenish black, the rest pale 

 buff, barred with black ; beak brownish horn, darker at the base ; legs 

 bluish grey ; iris pale yellow, the bare skin round the eye pale greenish. 

 Culmen 1 '2, wing 8'5, tail 35 '0, tarsus 3 '09 inch. The female resembles that 

 of C. pictus, but the naked skin round the eye is as in the male. 



Hob. The high mountains of Eastern Tibet, Szechuen, and 

 Yunnan, where it is a resident. 



The present species inhabits the wooded portions of the 

 mountains to an altitude of 7,000 to 9,000 feet, and especially 

 the wild bamboo thickets, on the buds of which it feeds. Its 

 eggs (laid in confinement) are rich cream-colour, in size about 

 the same as those of C. pictus. 



