198 REMARKS UPON PHAS1ANUS INSIGNIS. 



dated, and placed specimens ever united in one collection, and 

 I am confident that sooner or later independent research will 

 confirm my views. 



Flammeus is essentially a bird of the Hills of Southern 

 India and Ceylon. In the Hills of Ceylon, the Assamboo 

 Hills, and their continuation, the Cardamum Hills, the 

 Western Ghats, as far north at any rate as Khandalla, 

 whence I have specimens, the Pulneys, Anamallis and Nilgher- 

 ries, the bird is common, and in the cold season it may even be 

 found at some little distance from the bases of these in con- 

 venient jungles and on the Malabar coast to the very shores of 

 the sea, but it is in no sense a plains bird, and never occurs in 

 India I believe in the open country at any distance from one or 

 other of these Hill series. As regards Ceylon I cannot speak. 



Nearly allied to this species appears to be P. Exul (non vidi) 

 of Wallace, (P. Z. S., 1863, p. 492), from Lombock, and, if 

 really identical, East Java and Banda. 



This species has a second wing spot ; it appears to have the 

 coloured patch in both sexes (I go by the description) on 

 all but the first three primaries. 



The wing band is described as " narrowing on the secon- 

 daries and suddenly broader on the tertiaries" wherein, if this 

 be correct, it differs from all the Indiau Pericrocoti. 



Its dimensions are given — 



L., 7-5 ; W., 3-25 ; T., 3*62 ; B. at front, 0-5. So that it is 

 considerably smaller than the true fiammeus, though larger than 

 both igneus and ardens (apud nos) one or other of which, but 

 probably the latter, seems to have been the species referred to 

 by Mr. Wallace as fiammeus of Temminck. 



Unnavto wpit f jjastanus insipis. 



By D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E., &c. 



Perhaps it may seem to be rather late, and also somewhat 

 unnecessary at this time, to discuss the question as to the 

 existence of two species of Pheasants in Turkestan and Yar- 

 kand, since M. Severstov has procured, and made known to 

 ornithologists under the name of P. chry somelas , the exact 

 locality of the bird described by me some years since as P. 

 insignis. But as Mr. Scully, in a late volume of Stray 

 Feathers, has desired to know the differences that exist between 

 this bird aud the P. S/tmvi, and which induced me to describe 

 them as distinct, and as the plates in my monograph do not 

 seem to be s ufficient to exhibit these differences, (although 

 they were dra wn by the greatest delineator of animals living, 



