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Weight about 1 lb. or rather less. 



Young males of about a year old are like the females. 



In quite young birds, the whole plumage, especially the quills 

 and . coverts of the wings, is much more boldly mottled with buff 

 and white than in the adults. 



The ocelli commence to show in the autumn of the first year as 

 blackish spots, then on the longest tail feathers, early acquiring a 

 slight green sheen. 



Young in down. — Above, dark chestnut with two faint darker 

 streaks down the sides of the back with broad streaks of yellow buff 

 outside these. Below, the colour is a pale dull buff, rather richer 

 and brighter on the flanks and chin. A dark spot or spots on the 

 wings. 



The number of spurs on the tarsus differs in different individuals, 

 and often on the two legs of the same individual. In a few cases I 

 have seen as many as four on either leg, often three and sometimes 

 three on one and two on the other. The females have small blunt 

 spurs, either one or two, and rarely three on each leg. 



Distribution. — This Pheasant is found all along the Bhutan Terai, 

 and extends thence throughout the Brahmapootra Valley, both 

 North and South of the River, into the Chin Hills, Arrakan, Pegu, 

 Tennasserim and further East into Siam and the Kachin Hills. It 

 is common throughout the lower broken hills of Sylhet, Oachar, 

 Manipur, Tipperah and Ohittagong, and is certainly also found in 

 the West and South- West Lushai Hills. From the North- West I 

 have never been able to obtain any whole skins and, curiously 

 enough, the odd feathers I have obtained (from head-dresses, etc., of 

 the Looshais) were all similar to the tail feathers of P. germaini, so 

 that in this part of the country it would appear as if a bird nearer 

 to this latter species replaced bicalcaratum. P. germaini itself is 

 found in Cochin China, and it would seem impossible for it to occur 

 at so great a distance from this country especially, as we know, 

 other species intervene between the two points. 



It is noticeable in a large series of the Grey Peacock-Pheasant, 

 that as one works from the Westei'n limits of its range Eastwards, 

 the birds assume a less grey and more buff or brown tint in their 

 plumage ; so much so that it is not difficult to divide the species 

 into three groups. Of these, the birds with the purest grey plumage 

 inhabit the Buxar and Bhutan Dooars, the Darjiling Terai, and 

 Western Assam ; the most buff birds will be found in the Chin, 

 Kachin and South Burmah Districts with intermediate birds in the 

 intermediate country of Eastern Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, Ohittagong 

 and N. W. Ari^akan. Specimens from Siam, however, appear to 

 be nearer the Western form than the Eastern in general tint. 

 With still larger series available for examination it may be 

 found that the difference is sufficiently marked to allow of, or even 



