1375.] MR. W. B. TEGETMEIER ON TWO HYBRID PHEASANTS. 317 
Mr. Edward R. Alston, F.Z.S., exhibited a rufous variety of the 
murine Dormouse, Graphiurus murinus (Desm.)*, from West Africa, 
which had been sent to him for examination by Professor Young, of 
the University of Glasgow. He observed that this species varied 
much in the grey of the back, being more or less tinged with brown, 
and in the way in which the white of the lower parts sometimes 
passes into rufous. Hence it had been described under the various 
names Myoxus coupei, F. Cuvier +, M. erythobronchus, A. Smitht, 
and M. cineraceus, Riippell§ ; but these species had all been reunited 
by Smuts|| and by Dr. Peters§. None of the descriptions, however, 
agreed with the coloration of the present specimen, which was of a 
nearly uniform dull pale rufous, passing beneath into a dark yellow- 
ish grey. It agreed perfectly, however, in all other characters with 
normal individuals of G@. murinus, and was doubtless merely an 
extreme example of the rufous variation. 
Mr. Alston also remarked that the type of @. elegans, Ogilby **, 
now in the British Museum, seemed to be only a young specimen of 
G. capensis, F. Cuvier, and that consequently only two species of this 
genus appear to be well established. 
A communication was read from Lieut. R. J. Wardlaw-Ramsay, 
F.Z.S., dated ‘ Tonghoo, British Burmah, Nov. 22nd, 1874,” con- 
taining the following remarks on his Gecinus erythropygius tt (P.Z.S. 
1874, p. 212, pl. xxxv.) :—“ I have just obtained a pair of specimens 
of Gecinus erythropygius, in which the yellowish facial streak is en- 
tirely wanting. My original description was taken from a pair (¢ 
and 9) in which the streak was strongly marked in the former and 
absent in the latter—on which ground I considered it to be a sexual 
distinction. Mr. Hume, in his description of this bird as G. nigri- 
genis (‘Stray Feathers,’ 1874, p. 446), tells us that among his 
specimens there is one only, and that a 2, which has the streak ; 
from which it would appear that both sexes are sometimes found 
with it, but that it is not constant in either.” 
Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited two specimens of wild- 
bred hybrid Pheasant between Phasianus colchicus and Euplocamus 
nycthemerus, lately shot in Surrey, and made the following re- 
marks :— 
“The two hybrid Pheasants exhibited resulted from the escape 
of a Silver Pheasant hen from confinement, and her association 
with the common Pheasant in a preserve. 
* Mammalogie, Suppl. p. 542 (1820). 
+ Hist. Nat. des Mamm. iii. pl. 251 (1822). 
t Zool. Journal, iy. p. 438 (1829). airthe 
§ Mus. Senckenbergianum, iii. p. 136 (1845). 
|| Enum. Mamm. Capensium, p. 34 (1832). 
4] Reise nach Mossambique, p. 136 (1852). ** 1P°Z.S. 1838, p. 5: 
tt It appears that this species had been previously described and figured by 
Mr. Elliot, in Nouy. Archiv. du Muséum (Bulletin), 1865, p. 76, pl. iii., as 
Gecinus erythropygius (cf. Walden, ‘Ibis, 1875, p. 148). 
