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especially on the wings, whilst the outer webs of the primaries are 

 either pnre white or a very pale grey instead of brown or brown- 

 grey of quite a dark tint. The bases of the outer tail feathers are 

 often white, in some specimens, as in the tj^-pe of leucurum, this 

 white extends to practically the whole of the centre tail feathers, 

 and all the outer ones, in others it only extends to 4, 6, or 8 of 

 the outer pairs of feathers, whilst in some there is practically no 

 white. In all specimens of drouijnii however the basal halves 

 of the tail feathers instead of being glossy black, as in tihetanum, are 

 grey. 



The colours of the soft parts are the same as in tihetanum. 



Dimensions as in tihetanum. 



The types of leucurum were collected by Thorrold and Bangs be- 

 tween the Sokpo Pass and Chiamdu and the type of drouynii by 

 Pere David at Moupin. There are, however, other specimens, 

 collected at the latter place, in the British Museum as well as one 

 in the Tring Museum which are all named leucurum, whilst on the 

 other hand there are specimens of Eared Pheasants collected by Due 

 d'Orleans between Sokpo and Chiamdu which, although named 

 leticurum are quite indistinguishable from the type of drouynii. 



This is in itself enough to prove that the two birds leucurum and 

 d/rouynii are the same, for we cannot have two subspecies living in 

 one and the same habitat. 



The type of tihetammi is a bird with white spots on the tail, and 

 it would seem that this white is more an individual than a sub- 

 specific character and the points to be relied on in distinguishing 

 drouynii from tihetanum are the primaries and their comparative 

 whiteness and the absence or presence of grey next the black of the 

 tails. 



Bistrihution. — Apparently north-west and west of the area in- 

 habited by the Pale Grey Eared Pheasant between the Sokpo Pass 

 and Chiamdu and at Moupin. The exact point at which the Due 

 d'Orleans obtained his specimens is not known. 



Nidijication. — Nothing known. 



Hahits. — Pere David's notes, as already recorded, refer to this 

 bird certainly as much, possibly more, than to the previous bird. 



Although the particular bird selected as the type of female 

 leucurum from the series collected by Thayer and Bangs is as des- 

 cribed by Ogilvie-Grant in his Game Birds, it should be noted that 

 there is no reason to think that the female differs from the male 

 any more than the females of the other species do. The type 

 female is assuredly a most atypical bird, possibly a young one, 

 and possibly not even a female at all. On the other hand, the 

 male type will almost equally certainly prove to be an exceptionally 

 old and beautiful specimen with an abnormal amount of white on 

 the tail. 



