1882.] THE MALE AND FEMALE OF PHASIANUS HUMI^. 717 



with five similar but broader black bands, only here and there 

 showing a trace of a chestnut tinge ; the bars on the next two pairs 

 broader again, and a purer black ; the three outer pairs broadly 

 black at the tip, and the rest grey freckled with black. 



" The inner scapulars silver-white, the innermost of all with large, 

 subterminal, unsymmetrical, blue-grey spots, and the outer ones 

 partially fringed at the tip with a somewhat purpler grey ; the outer 

 scapulars much the same colour as the interscapulary region ; the 

 smallest wing-coverts a dull maroon ; the rest of the lesser and 

 most of the median coverts a dull dusky metallic green, but the 

 longest median coverts a maroon chestnut ; the primaries and 

 greater coverts and winglet hair-brown, the first with the terminal 

 one third or more of the outer webs a yellowish chestnut ; the 

 secondaries blackish interiorly, exteriorly chestnut, obliquely tipped 

 with white and with an antepenultimate black band ; tertiaries and 

 their greater coverts similar, but more of the inner webs chestnut 

 and their tipping transverse ; secondary greater coverts blackish, 

 broadly tipped white. 



" The lower parts, below the upper breast, a rich maroon chestnut, 

 but the feathers of the lower breast and its sides, and quite the 

 upper abdomen with fiery crimson fringes (scarcely visible in some 

 lights), preceded by a black shaft-spot; vent and tibial plumes 

 brown ; lower tail-coverts black, with a dull-green metallic sheen ; 

 wing-lining (except the lower greater primary-coverts, which are a 

 delicate satin-grey) a pale brownish chestnut, the feathers narrowly 

 margined with brown. 



"The female is still unknown." 



Description of Female (in the collection of Godwin-Austen). — 

 Throughout of a pale ochreous brown tint, with a nude red patch 

 surrounding the eye. Above — head rusty brown, each feather with 

 a small black subterminal spot ; the ground-colour fades on the 

 back of the neck into pale ruddy ochraceous, each feather having a 

 light spot with a subterminal black band ; these merge into the 

 darker feathers of the nape and upper back, where the above light 

 spot becomes broadly white and triangular or arrowhead-shaped, 

 set in velvet-black, the tip of the feather being ashy grey- 

 brown. The lower back and rump is pale ochre-brown, speckled 

 finely with black, the feathers having a subterminal large black spot 

 or streak, this becoming larger towards the upper tail-coverts, which 

 are more ruddy ochraceous, with splashes of black-brown near the 

 webs. The tail is maroon or chestnut, the two central feathers 

 tipped with white ; a subterminal black bar three quarters of an 

 inch from the end, and six imperfect bars of the same colour at the 

 above distance apart, which do not extend across the shaft. The 

 outer tail-feathers similar, but with no black on the outer webs, 

 and only a slight indication of the black bar on the margin of the 

 inner web. Below, including side of the neck, throat, and breast, 

 of a dull pale sienna-brown, slightly greyish, some of the feathers 

 on the side of the neck with small black tips. From the upper 

 breast, the sides, thigh-coverts, to the abdomen the feathers have a 



