826 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HisTORY SOCIETY, Voi, X1Ii, 
a pure species without seeing more specimens. In a recent paper in 
J. A. 8. B., (LXIX, Pt. I, p. 144), I identified, with some hesitation, 
a pair of birds from the Chin Hills With this sub-species} and on 
inspecting a dead male specimen und a living pair in the Bombay 
Natural Society's collection ftom the same place I find they agree — 
closely with the specimen I described. Moreover, a photograph of 
three males from the Chin Hills, submitted to me by the Soviety, shows 
all of them with the same character. A pair in the Indian Museum, 
lately received from Colonel C. T. Bingham, also agree, and thus the 
type seems a quite definite one. I find it differs from the true 
G. davison: in its much finer pencilling and shorter tail, as I can now 
perceive from specimen IV above mentioned. Mr. Oates calls this 
form G. williams, and describes it as having buff pencilling ; but I do 
not attach much importance to the colour of this marking, as a young 
male Silver Pheasant (very near G. andersont) in the Indian Museum 
collection, changing from female to male plumage, actually sometimes 
shows fine irregular buff and bold white penciliing on the same 
feather. It is possible, therefore, that this buff pencilling might get 
white as the bird got older, or seme bitds may tan or get rusty, as 
some white domestic fowls do. It seems most unlikely that there 
should be two forms of finely pencilled Kalij in the Chin Hills, 
differing only in celour of pencilling ; if, however, this should prove 
to be the case, the white-pencilled one will not bear my suggested 
name, G. turnezri, but should be identified with Temminck’s Lophophorus 
cuvieri, described from an unknown locality ; I have looked at the 
coloured figare of this, and it agrees so closely with the Chin Hills 
Genneus Pheasant that I think it must be the same bird. 
Four of Blyth’s eld specimens from Arrakan, which he referred to 
G. cuvieri, are still existing in the Asiatic Society’s collection ; 
two of them (a pair) agree so closely with Gennwws oatesi that they 
must be referred to that species if it be such.* But the other two are 
obviously hybrids between G. Aorsfieddiand G. lineatus, which was the 
* A living male whieh has been for years in the Caléytta Zoological Garden is also refer- 
able to this form, having the ganeral structure and colour of G, horsfieldi, but the upper eur= 
face, wings, and tail finely, irregularly, and brokenly pencilled with white, the last white 
line on each feather best defined. The white of the inner web of central tail-feathers is 
pencilled with black. The legs of this specimen are lead-eoloured, Its exact place of origin 
is unknown. 1 ee Ope Eile sy) 
