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but not alike on both sides of tail. Legs dull whitish-yellow im 
skin. 
Length, about 2ft. 3in.; Wing, about, 10in. ; Tail, to end of 
longest feather, about 14in. ; Bill, 1*4in. ; Shank, about 3°5in. 
No. IV. (Skin),—Agrees generally with the description given by 
Mr. Oates in the “ Game Birds of India” (Pt. I., p. 341), of what he 
ealls.in that work Genneus. andersoni, which is. the Genneeus. davisoné 
of the “ British Museum Catalogue of Birds’* (Vol, XXII., p, 304). 
That isto say, the present bird is black below and on the. flanks, 
and has.a black crest, while the upper plumage, wings, and tail are 
marked with bold zig-zag pencillings of white, fading out on the three 
outer. pairs of tail-feathers. The. lower back and: rump, have the. 
feathers broadly tipped with white, with a broad black zone some- 
times preceding the white. The specimen shows, however, some 
few points of difference. Some of the wing-coverts are almost alk 
black, showing merely a little white. along the shafts, ard this, is, 
much more the case on the right wing than the left. 
Moreover, the dimensions differ slightly. The length is about 27 
inches as.against 24.; the wing is only:9 inches long as.against nearly: 
94; while the tail is about 14 inches instead of 11. The legs. in the. 
skin are. horny-brown. 
No. V. (Wing, three long tail-feathers, and skin, of rump, with, 
note from,Captain Nisbett to the foliowing effect) :—“One wing, patch, 
of feathers of back, and tail of Genneus Pheasant. Shot at Sangunme, 
east of N’Maikha river, This is. the first of this species shot by me. 
and was. reported in my letter dated 6th January, 1900 ; it is the. 
nearest to the Silver Pheasant of: any I shot. Soft parts of cheek, 
bright crimson, legs of a yellowish-white.” In this. bird the wing 
is. like that of the last specimen, 2.¢., black with white. zig-zag pencilling. 
nearly obsolete on a few coverts ; the rump feathering is also,similar, 
but the white terminal fringe is reduced and faint—indeed, nearly- 
obsolete, and only a few ot the feathers, low down, show a tendency to 
exhibit the black subterminal zone. 
The tail-feathers, which are the. two. central ones and: one. of the 
next pair, agree generally with those. of the. last specimen, in the case 
of the latter absolutely ; but in the former there is.so much, white on 
the inner webs that the marking becomes there black on white 
