SOME KALIJ PHEASANTS FROM THE KACHIN HILLS, 527 
origin he ascribed to the series as a whole. As a matter of fact, all the 
short-tailed forms with narrow sub-erect crests and non-lanceolate lower 
plumage, agreeing in structure with G. horsfield’, might very well be 
treated as sub-species of that form, even including G. lineatus, and 
all probably interbreed freely. 
But when we come to G. andersoni, we get a structural distinction 
in the long arched tail, which is seen in a much fuller development 
in the Chinese G. nycthemerus ; and both of these have full pendent 
crests and red legs ; the legs of the others vary from lead-colour to 
fleshy. The pencilled forms of Gennes, then, fall into these types :— 
A. With structure of G. horsfeldi, tail not much longer than 
wing and narrow suberect crest. 
a, With fine clear white or buff pencilling 
on black, and white rump-bars ; all tail- 
feathers equally pencilled —... we Ge cuvieri. 
}. With very scanty, broken white pencilling 
on black, white rump-bars ; inner webs 
of middle tail-feathers white or nearly 
so a sie tie 40 ves Gre OGLESI. 
e, With a pepper-and-salt mixture of black- 
and-white above, formed by close irre- 
cular pencilling, no white rmap-bars ; 
inner webs of centre tail-feathers white G. lineatus. 
B. With tail much longer than wing and full drooping crest. 
a. With bold, regular, subequal black and 
white pencilling ss a ..- G. andersoni. 
b, With very fine black peneilling on a white 
ground, invisible at a short distance on 
most parts of the upper surface ; tail 
very long He ae ve we G. nycthemerus. 
These two species evidently interbreed also, for in the Indian Museum 
are two tails of males intermediate in type. 
The hens of these species will he easily distinguished, thus :— 
I, 
a. Very like female of G. horsfieldi, but with 
most of tail-feathers outside central pair 
finely pencilled with white  .,. we G, cuvieri. 
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