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shoulders the stripes are \evj iiarro\\', and the dark borders imper- 

 ceptible, but these increase graduallj^ in extent until they are broadest 

 and most conspicuous on the upper tail coverts and wing coverts ; 

 greater wing coverts and innermost secondaries green with pale 

 central streaks ; quills brown, darker on the inner webs and with white 

 shafts, the white extending to the webs on the secondaries ; some of 

 the upper tail coverts edged with crimson. Tail grejdsh white, 

 darkest in the centre, and all but the outermost pair with fringes 

 of crimson, broadest at the bases and obsolete at the tips. Under 

 tail coverts black at the bases, crimson on the terminal halves, and 

 with a spot of white surrounded with dusky at the extreme tips. 



Colours of soft ]jarts. — As in cruenUis. 



Measurements. — About the same as in the Common Blood 

 Pheasant. 



Ad'ult Female. — Whole head, throat and neck slaty grey with a 

 touch of ferraginous on lores and above e>YQ ; shafts of ear-coverts 

 white. The whole of the remainder of the plumage is a vermiculat- 

 ed grey-brown, greyest next the neck where the colours blend, and 

 brownest on the tail and secondaries ; the pale vermiculations are 

 strongest on the upper tail coverts and edges of the tail feathers. 

 The under plumage is a trifle paler than the upper, and the pale 

 shafts are somewhat more distinct. The whole aspect of the bird is 

 far more grey than it is in any other female of this genus. 



Colours of soft farts. — As in the female of cnientus. 



Measurements. — The female is slightly smaller than the male 

 with a wing of about 7-5" (=190-5 mm.) as against full 8" 

 ( = 203-2 mm.) in that sex. 



Ogilvie-Grant, both in the Catalogue and in his Game Birds, 

 gives the length of the female as 11-5, i.e., only about two-thirds 

 the size of cruentus. This is an obvious mistake, and is probably 

 only a printer's error in the first instance for 17-5. 



Distribution. — The extreme South-East of Tibet, East of the 

 Dong and Brahmapootra River and the Szechuen Mountains in 

 West and West-Central China. 



Ithagenes sinensis (David. ).- 

 The Chinese Blood Pheasant. 



Ithaginis sinensis.— J) SkYid., Ann. Sci. Nat. (5), XVIII., Art. 5, 

 p. 1 (1873), XIX., Art. 9, p.l (1874); David, and Oust&let, Ois 

 Chine, p. 402, pi. 114(1870); Row%, Orn. Misc., II., p. 421 

 (1877) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M., XXII., p. 290 (1893) ; id, 

 Game B., I., p. 219 (1895); Ogilvie-Grant, ibid (1900). p. 606; 

 Styan, ibid (1899), p. 298; Sharpe, Handlist, I., p. 33 (1899). 



Ithaginis geofroyi.—Fe^ey. Mongolia, II., p. 122 (1876) ; id, in 

 Row. Orn. Misc., IL, p. 421 (1877). 



