164 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW PHEASANTS. _ [ Mar. 24, 
scente, inde a pectore linea nigra divisa : abdomine cineraceo- 
Susco, obsolete variegato, hypochondriis albo ocellatis: tec- 
tricibus alarum et tibiis imis castaneis: cauda intus lacteo- 
alba nigro terminata, evtus fusca: rostro (in ave viva) nigro, 
pedibus rubido-carneis : iride obscure brunnea: crassitie fere 
specierum reliquarum. 
Hab. in Assamia superiore (Jerdon). 
Vivario. Soc. Zool. Londinensis. 
The present bird will therefore form a fifth member of the genus 
Ceriornis, of which the species now known to science will stand 
as follows :— 
1. Cerrornis saTyrA (Gould, B. Asia, pt. xx.). 
Hab. Southern slopes of the Himalayas of Nepaul, Sikim, and 
Bhotan, at an elevation of from 6000 to 9000 feet. 
Pairs of this Tragopan were first received by the Society in 1863. 
They bred in the Gardens in 1864 and the following years, and we 
had good hopes of their becoming permanent denizens of our aviaries* ; 
but, I am sorry to say, these expectations have not been fulfilled, 
and we have since lost the whole of these birds. Nor, I believe, have 
the sister societies on the Continent been more successful in the 
present case. 
2. CeRIORNIS MELANOCEPHALA (Gould, B. Asia, pt. vii.). 
Hab. Southern slopes of North-western Himalayas, at an eleva- 
tion of from 6000 to 9000 feet, Kumaon, Gurwhal, and Cashmere. 
3. CERIORNIS TEMMINCKII (Gould, B. Asia, pt. xxi.). 
Hab. Hills of Eastern and Northern Szechuen, extending thence 
into Central China. 
Monseigneur Chauveau sent skins of this Ceriornis from the hills 
above Ta-kien-liou along with those of Lophophorus (huysi and 
Ithaginis geoffroyt (Bull. Soc. Accl. 1867, p. 705). Living exam- 
ples were likewise obtained by Mr. Medhurst to the north of Han- 
kow along with those of Reeves’s Pheasant. 
4. Cerrornts caporti (Gould, B. Asia, pt. x.). 
Hab. Hills of Quang-sze, Southern China. 
The original specimen of this bird was obtained at Macao, and 
for some years was the only individual known of the species. Mr. 
Swinhoe subsequently purchased a living example in a bird-shop at 
Hong-kong (see ‘Ibis,’ 1865, p. 350), and has reason to believe it 
was brought down the Hong-kiang, or West River, from the hills of 
the interior of Quang-sze, where there is a fine unexplored country. 
5. CERIORNIS BLYTHII. 
Hab. Hills of Upper Assam, at the head of the valley (Jerdon). 
* Cf. Wolf & Selater, Zoological Sketches, ii. pl. xxix. 
