718 MALE AND FEMALE OF PHASIANUS HUMI^. [NoV. 28, 



whitish-ochre centre and an edging of the same tint, producing 

 crescentic barring or ornamentation to those parts ; a few of the 

 feathers on the right and left anterior breast have half the web 

 black with a central white bar. Abdomen dull dingy pale ochreous. 

 The under tail-coverts are mottled white, black, and ruddy brown ; 

 the longer feathers being tipped pure white, succeeded by a black 

 bar, then rich chestnut, and black at the base. The scapulars and 

 secondary coverts are, on the inner web, more or less velvet-black, 

 mottled with the same colour on a sienna ground, on the outer web 

 narrowly tipped whitish, forming three wiug-bands (two distinct, one 

 rather broken). The secondaries are mottled in the same manner 

 with four irregular blackish bars crossing each feather, every bar 

 margined on the outside with pale ruddy ochre and margined at the 

 end with pale ochre. The primaries are dark sepia-brown, with 

 four elongate ochre spots on the outer web, the inner web at all 

 these points having a mottling of chestnut. Wing greyish within. 

 Dimensions — wing 8-25 inches, tail 7"0, bill in front I'O, bill from 

 gape 1'2, tarsus 2*2. 



The female of this species thus differs from that of P. ellioti in 

 not possessing the black on the throat ; besides, the white underparts 

 of that bird (which are in keeping with those of the male) are also 

 absent. The tail would appear to be the same ; and the red nude 

 skin round the eye is also to be made out. 



When I first saw this bird, it reminded me very much of the 

 coloration of Bambusicola fytchi, a common bird in the Naga 

 hills, in spite of the difference in size and other characters ; and 

 certainly there is, in the lower back and rump, a curious similarity. 

 Subdue in B. fytchi its rusty colouring, and reduce the black on the 

 breast to the dull ochraceous bariing of this Pheasant, and it would 

 be still closer in resemblance ; one can trace on the sides of the 

 breast in P. humice that a few of the feathers are black, while in 

 the Bambusicola, in the female, the outer tail-feathers are tipped 

 blackish with a white edging. 



This bird is a true Phasianus ; and I do not consider that there 

 are characters sufficient to place it in a new genus, as was proposed 

 by Mr. Elliot when he created the term Calopkasis in 1872 for Ph. 

 ellioti. 



6. Notes on a Species of Stick Insect reared in the Insect- 

 House in the Society^s Gardens. By Arthur Thom- 

 son ^ 



[Eeceived November 15, 1882.] 



(Plate LII.) 



One of the most curious and interesting insects that has been 

 reared in the Insect-House during the past season is a species of 

 Stick Insect (Bacillus pntellifer, Bates, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv, 

 ' Communicated by the Secretary. 



