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1882.] THE MALE AND FEMALE OF PHASIANUS HUMIZ. 717 
with five similar but broader black bands, only here and there 
showing a trace of a chestnut tinge; the bars on the next two pairs 
broader again, and a purer black; the three outer pairs broadly 
black at the tip, and the rest grey freckled with black. 
“The inner scapulars silver-white, the innermost of all with large, 
subterminal, unsymmetrical, blue-grey spots, and the outer ones 
partially fringed at the tip with a somewhat purpler grey ; the outer 
scapulars much the same colour as the interscapulary region; the 
smallest wing-coverts a dull maroon; the rest of the lesser and 
most of the median coverts a dull dusky metallic green, but the 
longest median coverts a maroon chestnut; the primaries and 
greater coverts and winglet hair-brown, the first with the terminal 
one third or more of the outer webs a yellowish chestnut ; the 
secondaries blackish interiorly, exteriorly chestnut, obliquely tipped 
with white and with an antepenultimate black band ; tertiaries and 
their greater coverts similar, but more of the inner webs chestnut 
and their tipping transverse; secondary greater coverts blackish, 
broadly tipped white. 
“‘ The lower parts, below the upper breast, a rich maroon chestnut, 
but the feathers of the lower breast and its sides, and quite the 
upper abdomen with fiery crimson fringes (scarcely visible in some 
lights), preceded by a black shaft-spot; vent and tibial plumes 
brown ; lower tail-coverts black, with a dull-green metallic sheen ; 
wing-lining (except the lower greater primary-coverts, which are a 
delicate satin-grey) a pale brownish chestnut, the feathers narrowly 
margined with brown. 
“The female is still unknown.” 
Description of Female (in the collection of Godwin-Austen).— 
Throughout of a pale ochreous brown tint, with a nude red patch 
surrounding the eye. Above—head rusty brown, each feather with 
a small black subterminal spot; the ground-colour fades on the 
back of the neck into pale ruddy ochraceous, each feather having a 
light spot with a subterminal black band; these merge into the 
darker feathers of the nape and upper back, where the above light 
spot becomes broadly white and triangular or arrowhead-shaped, 
set in velvet-black, the tip of the feather being ashy grey- 
brown. The lower back and rump is pale ochre-brown, speckled 
finely with black, the feathers having a subterminal large black spot 
or streak, this becoming larger towards the upper tail-coverts, which 
are more ruddy ochraceous, with splashes of black-brown near the 
webs. The tail is maroon or chestnut, the two central feathers 
tipped with white; a subterminal black bar three quarters of an 
inch from the end, and six imperfect bars of the same colour at the 
above distauce apart, which do not extend across the shaft. The 
outer tail-feathers similar, but with no black on the outer webs, 
and only a slight indication of the black bar on the margin of the 
inner web. Below, including side of the neck, throat, and breast, 
of a dull pale sienna-brown, slightly greyish, some of the feathers 
on the side of the neck with small black tips. From the upper 
breast, the sides, thigh-coverts, to the abdomen the feathers have a 
