718 MALE AND FEMALE OF PHASIANUS HUMIZ.  [Nov. 28, 
whitish-ochre centre and an edging of the same tint, producing 
crescentic barring or ornamentation to those parts; a few of the 
feathers on the right and left anterior breast have half the web 
black with a central white bar. Abdomen dull dingy pale ochreous. 
The under tail-coverts are mottled white, black, and ruddy brown ; 
the longer feathers being tipped pure white, succeeded by a black 
bar, then rich chestnut, and black at the base. The scapulars and 
secondary coverts are, on the inner web, more or less velvet-black, 
mottled with the same colour on a sienna ground, on the outer web 
narrowly tipped whitish, forming three wing-bands (two distinct, one 
rather broken). The secondaries are mottled in the same manner 
with four irregular blackish bars crossing each feather, every bar 
margined on the outside with pale ruddy ochre and margined at the 
end with pale ochre. The primaries are dark sepia-brown, with 
four elongate ochre spots on the outer web, the inner web at all 
these points having a mottling of chestnut. Wing greyish within. 
Dimensions—wing 8°25 inches, tail 7°0, bill in front 1:0, bill from 
gape 1°2, tarsus 2°2. 
The female of this species thus differs from that of P. ellioti in 
not possessing the black on the throat ; besides, the white underparts 
of that bird (which are in keeping with those of the male) are also 
absent. The tail would appear to be the same; and the red nude 
skin round the eye is also to be made out. 
When I first saw this bird, it reminded me very much of the 
coloration of Bambusicola fytchi, a common bird in the Naga 
hills, in spite of the difference in size and other characters; and 
certainly there is, in the lower back and rump, a curious similarity. 
Subdue in B. fytchi its rusty colouring, and reduce the black on the 
breast to the dull ochraceous barring of this Pheasant, and it would 
be still closer in resemblance; one ean trace on the sides of the 
breast in P. humie that a few of the feathers are black, while in 
the Bambusicola, in the female, the outer tail-feathers are tipped 
blackish with a white edging. 
This bird is a true Phasianus; and I do not consider that there 
are characters sufficient to place it in a new genus, as was proposed 
by Mr. Elliot when he created the term Calophasis in 1872 for Ph. 
elliott. 
6. Notes on a Species of Stick Insect reared in the Insect- 
House in the Society’s Gardens. By Arruur THom- 
SON’. 
[Received November 15, 1882.] 
(Plate LII.) 
One of the most curious and interesting insects that has been 
reared in the Insect-House during the past season is a species of 
Stick Insect (Bacillus patellifer, Bates, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv, 
* Communicated by the Secretary. 
