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All wing coverts more uniform in color and much darker than in B. 
fytchii; chest more uniform, almost lacking the white spots; black 
markings of flanks more extensive and more irregular in shape, the 
feathers of this region often being nearly solid black barred with white; 
rump and upper tail coverts plain dark olivaceous, wholly lacking 
the markings of B. fytchiv. 
Measurements: wing, 143, tail feathers, 100, culmen, 20.5, tarsus, 48. 
GENNAEUS NYCTHEMERUS (Linné). 
l adult °, 2 immature, Mengtsze. 
PHASIANUS ELEGANS Elliot. 
ladult, ~, Mengtsze, 27 May, 1910. 
This extends the range of P. elegans in a southwesterly direction. 
This specimen is like those in the M. C. Z. from western Szechwan 
_taken by the late Walter R. Zappey. 
'TRERONIDAE. 
SPHENOCERCUS SPHENURUS (Vigors). 
Adult cand ¢, Mengtsze, July. 
The ¢ agrees fairly well with the two male specimens from northern 
India in M. C. Z., but the ¢° is a much darker green on the upper parts 
and a slightly mer green below, than in Indian females. 
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COLUMBIDAE. 
COLUMBA HODGSONI (Vigors). 
These agree entirely witha 2 fi Darjeeling, India, in M. C. Z. 
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PERISTERIDAE. 
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3 specimens, all immature, Mengtsze, June, July, Sept. . 
