436 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



An adult female measures in the skin :— 



Length, 18 # ; wing-, 7*0; the tertiaries in this sex falling 

 short of the longest primaries ; tail, 9"0 ; tarsus, which has no 

 spurs, 2 - 4; mid toe and claw, 1*6; bill at front, 1*0. 



The whole forehead, top of the head, including a short crest, 

 occiput, back, and sides of the neck, moderately deep smoky- 

 brown, more ashy on the sides of the neck ; chin and throat 

 paler, almost pure white on the chin, and middle of the upper 

 part of the throat ; primaries and their greater coverts as in the 

 male ; the upper back, lower back, rump, and upper and all but 

 the longest row of tail-coverts, brown; all the feathers very 

 finely pencilled with zig-zag buff lines ; the visible portions of 

 the closed wings, scapulars, and interscapulary region similar, 

 but with a large, more or less triangular, more or less ill-defined, 

 black spot near the tip ; the zig-zaggy buff lines below and outside 

 which are coarser and more of an aggregation of small blotches, 

 and the markings on the secondaries and tertiaries are similarly 

 more speckly iu character. On the tail feathers and their greater 

 upper coverts the markings lean more to the net-work pattern 

 of. the male. The ground color is black or nearly so, closely, 

 but rather coarsely, marked with zig-zaggy hieroglyphic lines and 

 patches, which just at the tips of the tail feathers combine more 

 or less into an imperfect net-work ; the occelli on the tail and 

 longest upper tail-coverts are placed as in the male, but are much 

 smaller, and on the tail want the buff line, margining the 

 upper half; the lower parts brown, not unlike those in the 

 male, but with the buffy zig-zaggy lines of the breast and 

 abdomen very much finer and feebler. 



The young males are at first like the females, but soon the 

 tail begins to approximate that of the male, and one by one the 

 black, more or less triangular, spots change into the circular 

 occelli, blue at first, but gradually becoming greener ; the way 

 the change is effected is curious ; in the middle of the black 

 spot appears a faint purple tinge ; this becomes bluer and larger, 

 the black spot itself becomes rounder and rounder, the blue 

 central portion expands, till we have a blue occellum surrounded 

 by a narrow black line. 



811 ter.— Euplocamus lineatus, Vig. Descr. S, F., 

 III., 166. 



{Karen Sills, Rams.) Kollidoo ; Dargwin ; Pahpoon, Salween R. ; Wimpong < 

 Generally distributed in suitable localities throughout the 



northern and central portions of the province. 



[This Pheasant occurs not uncommonly about Pahpoon and 



its neighbourhood, and it extends, it is said, as far south as 



