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of the lower end of the Manipur plain, or, as it is miscalled, 

 valley) to fully 5,000 feet. They prefer the neighbourhood of 

 streams and are neither rare nor shy. They extend right 

 through the Kamhow territory into Eastern Looshai and North- 

 West Independent Burmah. 



That they occasionally stray up the Jhiri Valley well into 

 Manipur is probable, and they may occur not only where we 

 procured them in the extreme south of that state, but also 

 probably in the southern portion of its Eastern Hills. 



The nearest ally of this beautiful species is Callophasis 

 elliotti, but our bird, besides the much narrower bars on the 

 central tail feathers (by which I at once recognized the exis- 

 tence of an undescribed species), has the neck all round black, 

 and has the lower parts a rich maroon chestnut instead of 

 white, as in Elliot's Pheasant. 



Like its nearest ally, this bird is distinctly an intermediate 

 link between the true Pheasants (Phasianus) and the Fowl 

 Pheasants ( Gallophasis), and I think that both may well be 

 separated under the generic title Callophasis. 



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Description. — The legs and feet in both sexes are a rather 

 dull orange, paler and yellower in some, rather darker and 

 redder in others ; claws very pale horny drab ; upper man- 

 dible and tip of lower mandible dark horny dusky ; cere a little 

 lighter ; gape greenish white ; base of lower mandible beyond 

 gape, pale bluish horny ; irides brownish red, or orange brown, 

 or hazel (they vary indifferent specimens) ; edges of eyelids 

 dusky ; lower lid bare, pale leaden blue ; soles pale yellow. 



Male. — Forehead, a band above the eye, chin, cheeks and 

 throat deep maroon ; lores, a patch behind the eye, over, and 

 another smaller one beloiv, the ear-coverts, white ; sometimes 

 these two patches are united by a narrow white band behind 

 the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts stiff, with disunited webs, closely 





