162 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW PHEASANTS. [Mar. 21, 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Notice of the arrival in the Society’s Gardens of living 
Specimens of two newly described Species of Phasianide. 
By P. L. Scuatzr, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to 
the Society. 
(Plates XIV., XV.) 
Since the last Meeting, the Society’s collection of living Phasia- 
nidee has been enriched by the acquisition of the original typical 
specimens of two very fine species of the genera Lophophorus and 
Ceriornis, which have been lately described as new by Dr. Jerdon. 
The discovery of these remarkable additions to the list of known 
Pheasants is a matter of so much interest that I venture to offer to 
the Meeting a few remarks upon the subject, in connexion with 
the drawings of these splendid birds which I now exhibit. 
In October last Dr. T. C. Jerdon, the well-known Indian natura- 
list, addressed to me a letter ftom Shillong, a new sanitarium on 
the Khasya Hills in- Upper Assam, stating that he had obtained 
from the hill-ranges in the neighbourhood of Suddya a skin of a 
Tragopan (Ceriornis), distinct from either of the well-known Indian 
species, but which he believed might be C. temminchii of China, and 
had seen a living example of an Impeyan from the same Hills, which 
he regarded as probably new to science, and proposed to call Lopho- 
phorus sclatert. 'This letter was accompanied by an enclosure upon 
the same subject for publication in ‘The Ibis,’ which was duly 
forwarded to the editor of that journal, and appeared in the last 
number*, 
In a subsequent communication, received through Dr. J. Anderson, 
our excellent correspondent and honorary agent at Caleutta, Dr. 
Jerdon informed me that, in the interests of the Society, he had 
begged of Major Montagu, of the Bengal Staff Corps, the fortunate 
possessor of the new Impeyan, the living bird in question, as also a 
living example of the so-called Ceriornis temminckii, in the same 
gentleman’s possession, and had forwarded them to Calcutta to Dr. 
Anderson for transmission to the Society. Dr. Jerdon likewise 
stated that, since he last wrote, having had an opportunity of con- 
sulting authorities, he had convinced himself that the Ceriornis was 
distinet from C. temminckii, and, in a notice sent to the ‘ Journal 
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,’ had proposed to call it Ceriornis 
blythit. 
It is to Major Montagu, therefore, that the Society are primarily 
indebted for these two splendid birds, which reached us in safety 
on the 12th inst., though our best thanks are likewise due to 
Dr. Jerdon and Di Anderson for their kind assistance in the matter, 
and to Mr. William Jamrach, who most liberally undertook to con- 
vey them home, under his personal care, and has delivered them 
to us in excellent condition. 
* See ‘ Ibis,’ 1870, p. 147, and J. A. 8. B. 1870, p. 61. 

