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Phasianus fasciatus, McClell., Calctitta Jotir., N. H., ii, p. 146, 

 pi. iii (1842). 



Gallophasis lineatus, Hume, Str. Feath., ii, p. 482 (1874). 



Miplocomus lineatus, Blyth", Oat. Mus. As. Soc, p. 244 (1849) 

 (part). 



Euijlocamus lineatus, Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 625 

 (1873); Hume, Str. Feath., iii, p. 165 (1875); Fielden, Str. Feath., 

 iii, p. 168 (1875); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds Ind., p. 205, 

 pi. (1878); Hume and Davison, Str. Feath., vi, p. 436 (1878); 

 Anderson, Zool. W. Yunnan, ii, p. 669 (1878); Bingham, Str. 

 'Feath., ix, p. 195 (1880) ; Gates, Str. Feath., x, p. 236 (1882); 

 Gates, Birds, Burmah, ii, p. 316 (1883); Gates, ed. Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, iii, p. 416 (1890). 



LophoijliOTus cuvieri, Hume, Str. Feath., iii, p. 166 (1875). 



Nydhemerus lineatus, Blyth and Walden, Cat. Mammals and 

 Birds, Burmah, p. 149 (1895). 



ISuplocamus cuvieri, Gates, B. Burmah, ii, p. 318 (1883) (part). 



Type ? 



Description : adult male. — The whole upper plumage, with the 

 exception of a black crest, very finely vermiculated with black and 

 white. In some birds these vermiculations are somewhat bolder 

 and better defined than in others, but in no case do they develop 

 into regular bars. Below the whole plumage is black with long 

 white streaks to the feathers, widest and best defined on the flanks 

 and sides of breast. The outer webs of the central rectrices are 

 more or less white. 



• The rump is marked like the rest of the upper plumage, and does 

 not contrast with it. 



Adult female. — Above light olive rufous, with white and V-shaped 

 centres to the feathers of the nape and mantle, and everywhere 

 faintly stippled with brown ; below bright rufous chestnut with 

 broad white centres to the feathers. 



The tail is pale rufescent, more or less stippled and barred with 

 black on the outer webs of the feathers , the outer tail feathers are 

 generally a rather rich dark chestnut barred with white, the white 

 bars margined above and below with blackish. Sometimes the chest- 

 nut is pale and yellowish, and the richness in colour generally 

 varies greatly individually. 



Distribution. — The Burmese Silver Pheasant is found through- 

 out the Pegu Yomas between the Irrawaddy and the Sittang, and 

 across the extreme South of the latter River, East into the Moul- 

 mein District, as far South as Moulmein and Muleyit Mountain. 

 Northwards it is found at least as far as the Thazi-Taungyi Road 

 and from Fort Stedman it appears to extend in a narrow line as far 

 East as the neighbourhood of Kengtung, It has not however been 

 procured between Fort Stedman and Kengtung, and its appearance 



