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the occiput, which is almost concealed by the long coronal feathers ; 
lores, under eye, and ear-coverts brown; throat and breast light 
brownish buff, the latter marked with short streaks of brown. Axil- 
laries and remaining under parts white, broad black and brown streaks 
running along the flanks and at the base of the tibiee. Wing-coverts 
black, narrowly edged with brownish grey, and tipped with creamy 
white, forming a double bar across the wing; quills hair-brown, nar- 
rowly margined with pale reddish brown ; the tertiaries blacker, with 
their edgings broader and washed with rust-colour ; inner edges to 
quills whitish ; outermost tail-feather white, with the apical two-thirds 
of outer web pale brown ; second rectrix brown on outer web, white 
only on apical two-thirds of inner web, making a sharp angle at the 
shaft with the brown which thence mounts obliquely towards the 
tip; rest of the rectrices, except the two central, deep brown; the 
centrals brownish grey, edged paler, with brown stems. 
Bill blackish grey, darkest on the apical two-thirds. Irides deep 
brown. Legs yellowish flesh-colour, with brownish claws. 
Length about 53 inches ; wing 2°65; tail 2°5; bill -63, its depth 
at base "18; tarse ‘62; hind toe °30, claw ‘25. 
The female above described is the only specimen I procured. It 
was shot on the sides of the mountain-gorge near Kweichow, the 
westernmost city of Hoopih province on the Yangtsze, on the 18th 
April, 1869. I took it at first for the female of L. chrysophrys, 
but it is more nearly allied to Z. elegans than to that species. Mr. 
Tristram, after carefully examining and comparing my specimen, pro- 
nounced it distinct, and urged me to describe and name it at once. 
7. PHASIANUS DECOLLATUS, Sp. nov. 
Male. Differs from P. torquatus of China in having the crown 
deep brown, its feathers margined with bronzed reflections ; in having 
no white superciliary mark, and no indications of a white collar. The 
bare red skin of the face is very small. Entire neck fine duck-green, 
with purple reflections. The feathers of the upper back differ from 
those in P. torquatus in having their centres black, with a narrow 
median yellowish streak and broad chestnut cross mark. Those of the 
breast are a duller chestnut, with their black margins reflecting green 
instead of purple. The black bars of the tail are about the same 
distance apart, but are much broader. 
Bill pale lemon-yellow, slightly tinged with brown. Iris yellow. 
Eyelid blood-red, fringed with black. Face-skin blood-red, speckled 
with black. Legs light bluish grey, with brown-tinged toes and claws, 
the latter tipped with black. 
Length of wing 9°25 inches ; of tail about 18; bill in front 1°38 ; 
tarse 2°65. 
On the 13th of May, 1869, the day after our arrival at Chungking- 
foo in Szechuen, the servant returned from the market with this 
Pheasant. He fortunately showed it to me before he handed it to the 
couk. I was at once struck by the absence of the collar, and tried 
to get more specimens, but without success. The natives declared 
that they had never seen the Pheasant with the white collar. I con- 
sider the want of the collar a very striking peculiarity, as, among the 
