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Callophasis humise, Sp. Nov. 



Mrs. Hume's Pheasant. 



Hale. — Length, 33"0 inches ; expanse, 26 ; tail (of 16 feathers) 

 from vent, 21 ; wing, 8*6 ; tarsus, 275 ; bill from gape, 1*3. 

 "Weight, 21bs. 6ozs. The legs, feet, claws and spurs (the latter 

 0*85 in length), all a pale delicate drab brown ; the facial 

 skin an intense crimson ; irides orange ; bill greenish horny, 

 dusky on cere and base of upper mandible and pale yellowish 

 horny towards the tips of both mandibles. 



A narrow black band bounds the anterior angle of the bare, 

 velvety, crimson, diamond -shaped patch in which the eye is set ; 

 the forehead, crown, occiput and ear-coverts are brown ; the 

 feathers of the occiput, especially on the sides of this and a 

 few of those on the crown also, with a dark terminal hair-line 

 producing a somewhat scaley appearance ; the chin, throat, neck 

 all round, upper breast and extreme upper part of the back, 

 a smoky black ; all the feathers, except those of the chin and 

 quite the upper throat, fringed with metallic blue black, which, 

 except on the front of the middle and lower throat, is, owing to 

 the overlapping of the feathers, the only color seen. Just inside 

 the fringe, on all the feathers of the upper parts of the breast and 

 back there is a triangular or arrow-head black velvet spot ; the 

 interscapulary region is dark metallic pheasant maroon or red 

 with a fiery crimson sheen, each feather with a similar subter- 

 minal velvet black shaft spot ; middle and lower back, rump 

 and all but the longest upper tail-coverts black, with a grey 

 blue sheen, each feather fringed with white ; the longest 

 upper tail-coverts and the tail grey brown ; the central tail 

 feathers with eight rather narrow and irregular, mingled black 

 and chestnut transverse bands ; the next pair, which are eight 

 inches shorter, 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 tips 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 inter- 

 scapulary 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 chest- 

 nut ; the primaries and greater coverts and winglet hair brown, 



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