716 LIEUT.-COL. GODWIN-AUSTEN ON [Nov. 28, - 
up, with the hope that it will be also figured in the ‘ Proceedings’ 
of this Society. 
Mr. Hume may well be proud of having discovered this beautiful 
addition to the Phasianidze and to the birds of India; but I much 
regret that he did not give it the title of munipurensis, so significant 
of its home, and to which it seems almost restricted, although it no 
doubt extends eastwards along the main range, the Patkoi, some 
distance. How close it gets to its nearest ally, Phasianus elliott 
(from Che-kiang in Eastern China), and what other intermediate 
forms are yet to be found in that vast unexplored tract of forest- 
clad mountains that intervene between Munipur and the Singpho 
country, is an interesting point. A grand field lies here for future 
travellers and naturalists. Judging from what I have received from 
the neighbourhood of Brahmakund, and the number of yet unde- 
scribed shells in my collection, a great change in the fauna from 
that of the country west sets in here, and extends into that of 
Szechuen, where Pére David obtained so many new and novel forms 
of animals and birds. 
Original description. 
** Male. Length 33 inches, expanse 26, tail (of sixteen feathers) 
from vent 21, wing 8°6, tarsus 2°75, bill from gape 1:3. Weight 
2 lb. 6 oz. 
*« The legs, feet, claws, and spurs (the latter 0°85 inch in length) 
all a pale delicate drab-brown ; the facial skin an intense crimson ; 
irides orange; bill greenish horny, dusky on cere and base of upper 
mandible, and pale yellowish horny towards the tips of both man- 
dibles. A narrow black band bounds the anterior angle of the bare, 
velvety, crimson, diamond-shaped patch in which the eye is set ; 
the forehead, crown, occiput, and ear-coverts are brown; the 
feathers of the occiput, especially on the sides of this and a few of 
those on the crown also, with a dark terminal hair-line, producing a 
somewhat scaly appearance ; the chin, throat, neck all round, upper 
breast, and extreme upper part of the back a smoky black ; all the 
feathers, except those of the chin and quite the upper throat, fringed 
with metallic blue-black, which, except on the front of the middle 
and lower throat, is, owing to the overlapping of the feathers, the 
only colour seen. Just inside the fringe, on all the feathers of the 
upper parts of the breast and back, there is a triangular or arrow- 
head black velvet spot; the interscapulary region is dark metallic 
pheasant maroon, or red with a fiery crimson sheen, each feather 
with a similar subterminal velvet-black shaft-spot; middle and 
lower back, rump, and all but the longest upper tail-coverts black 
with a grey-blue sheen, each feather fringed with white ; the longest 
upper tail-coverts and the tail grey-brown’; the central tail-feathers 
with eight rather narrow and irregular, mingled black and chestnut 
transverse bands*; the next pair, which are eight inches shorter, 
? Or ashy grey with a brown tinge. 
? In my specimen dark chestnut bands 0:4 inch wide with two parallel black 
bars on the basal side. 
