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iibetanum is a very alDnormal bird with numerous large white spots 

 or patches on the tail feathers, a pattern I have seen in no other 

 specimen. 



If, therefore, as seems to me to be proved beyond doubt drouynii 

 and leucurtom are one and the same bird, the latter becomes a 

 sjaionym of the former. 



Key to Species and Subspecies. 



A. — Colour above white or pale grey. 



a. No white or grey on tail ; outer 



webs of primaries dark . . . tibetanum tihetanum. 



b. Tail 1 feathers partlj^ white or 



grey ; outer webs of primaries 



white or very pale grey . . . tibetanum drouynii. 



B. — Colour above dark grey. 



a. No white on tail ... ... auritum harmani. 



h. Tail feathers partly white . . . auritum, auritum. 



C. — Colour above brownish, not grey . . . mancJmricum. 



The position of harmani is rather difficult to define. In general 

 appearance it is very close to auritum and certainly seems to rank 

 as a subspecies of that bird. On the other hand the number of 

 tail feathers would seem to show it to be nearer tibetanum. 



The group tibetanum (leucuruon) drouynii and harmani have 20 tail 

 feathers, whereas aurituin has 24 and manchuricum has 22, 



The type of harmani has 1 9 feathers and is incomplete ; the male 

 and female presented by Capt. Bailey, to the Museum, are in moult 

 but seem to have had 20 tail feathers, the others of the fine series 

 obtained by this latter collector, with the exception of one skin, 

 are now merely stuffed specimens in a glass case in a private collec- 

 tion, but they were examined by me prior to being so mounted and 

 though in most cases incomplete or moulting seemed to have had 

 in no case more than 20 tail feathers. If this eventually proves to 

 be invariably the case harmani will have to be elevated to the rank 

 of species and the above key modified accordingl}^ 



Ckossoptilon tibetanum tibetanum (Hodgson). 

 The Tibet or Tale Grey Eo.red Pheasant. 



Phasianus (^Crossoptilon) tibetanus. — Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc, 

 Beng. VII., p. 864, pi. 46 (1838), id., Ind. Eev. III., p. 593, pi. 

 (1839). 



Crossoftilon tibetanum. — Hodgson in, Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 

 (1844) ; Sclater, List Phasianidse j). 6, pi. 4 (18G3) ; David Vou. Arch. 

 Mus. Bull, VII., p. 11 (1871); Elliot, Mon. Phasianid^, 1, pi. 14 

 (1872); David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 407, pi. 107 (1877); Hume, 

 Stray Feath., VII., p. 426 (1878); Scully, Stray Feath., VIIL, p. 

 343 (1879) ; Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat. (7), XII. p. 315 (1892) [part] ; 



