On new Silver-Pheasants from Bunm. 283 



situate in the lower levels and valleys of Kent may yield 

 even larger and more interesting results when I have the 

 opportunity of resuming the investigation. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIIL 



i\". Kochianus, Bate, from Lough Mask. 



Fit/. L Terminal uropoda, male and female (to scale). 

 i->y. 2. Mandible. 

 Fi(/. 3. Posterior lip. 



N./untaniis, Bate (?), = iV', suiter raneus, Leach. 



Fig. 4. Gnathopod of first pair. 

 Fig. o. Second pair of gnathopoda. 



From a specimen half an inch in body-length from no. 4 well, near 

 Sittingbourne, Kent. 



XLI. — On some new Species of Silver. Pheasants /rom 

 Burma.. By EuGENE W. Oates. 



Amongst the Pheasants that I have received from Burma 

 during the last two years there are tiiree well-marked new 

 species of Silver-Pheasants. The first two that I shall 

 describe belong to an entirely new section of these birds, 

 in which the males combine a black wing with a barred tail, 

 and the females have the middle tail-feathers with the two 

 webs of different colours. The third species is of remarkable 

 interest, as it has now been rediscovered after an interval 

 of eighty years. The bird was, however, never described 

 nor named, and it was only known trom a coloured drawing. 



Gennceus obscurus, sp. u. 



In the adult male the head, crest, and the whole lower 

 plumage are glossy blue-black. The hind-neck, mantle, 

 back, and all the upper wing-coverts are bluish black, 

 sparingly speckled with pale buff. The rump-feathers and 

 upper tail-coverts are bluish black, broadly margined with 

 white and very sparingly dotted with pale butf on one or 

 both webs. The primaries are brown ; the secondaries black, 

 ■with a few buff specks on the margin of the outer web of 

 each feather. The outermost tail-feather is black ; the 

 middle pair black with narrow, broken, diagonal white bars 

 on the whole of both webs, except the terminal quarter oi 

 the outer web, the margin of the basal half of the inner wcU 



