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feathers white, the next pau% or two pairs, white on the outer 

 web and barred with wide semi-longitudinal bands of black about 

 12mm. broad. 



Adult female.- — Above, bright rufous brown, blackish brown on 

 the shoulders where the feathers are broadly centred with white ; 

 elsewhere finely vermiculated with dark brown ; tail rather more 

 chestnut, especially on outer feathers. Below, nearly white, each 

 feather broadly margined with blackish brown ; chin and throat 

 dirty white, and centre of abdomen and vent dull grey, showing- 

 only faint signs of dark edgings. 



Distribution. — Hainan. 



GENNiEUS SWINHOII, 

 Gould's Silver Pheasant. 



]]]u2^locamus sivinlioii, Gould, P. Z. S. (1862), p. 284; Swinhoe, 

 Ibis (1863), p. 401 ; Gould, B. Asia, vii, p. 16 (1864); Swinhoe, 

 Ibis (1865), pp. 353, 538; (1866) pp. 133, 308, 404; (1867) 

 pp. 232, 409; P. Z. S. (1871), p. 399; Elliott, Monog. Phasian., 

 ii, p. 25 (1875). 



Gennceus swinlioii. — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds, B. M., xxii, p. 309 

 (1893); id. Hand-List, Game B., i, p. 278 (1895); Gates, Cat. 

 Eggs, B. M., i, p. 56 (1901). 



Descrijytion : adult male. — Head, with exception of short crest, 

 neck and under parts with all but central rectrices black ; short crest, 

 back of lower neck, upper back and central tail feathers white ; lower 

 back and upper tail coverts black ; fringed with brilliant deep blue 

 glass : scapulars purple bronze ; wings black, the coverts egged with 

 metallic green. 



Adult female. — A rich rufons brown above, finel}'- barred with 

 black and feathers of mantle with broad rufous centres bordered and 

 barred with black ; central tail feathers the same as the back with 

 narrow bands of whitish and black. Below, chin, throat, and sides 

 of head and neck pale dull cinereous with still paler shaft stripes ; 

 remainder of lower plumage rich fulvous brown, almost chestnut on 

 breast, the feathers margined and marked with lines of black. 



Distribution. — Formosa. 



GENNiEUS EDWARDSI. 



lEdivard/s Silver Pheasant. 



Gennmus edwardsi, Oustalet, Bull. Mus,, Paris, ii, pp. 316-317 

 (1896). 



Type in Paris Museum. 



Description: adult male. — " Piles crista decumbente alba, vix nigro 

 maculata ornato, dorno, pectore, abdomineque splendide nigro 



