1912] Beebe: New Blood Pheasants. 193 



decidedly whitish instead of warm buff. The type specimen selected 

 is the adult female from southern Sikhim, which is No. 450 in the 

 Kuser-Beebe Collection. 



The form Ithaginis cruentus affinis is of the same geographical 

 class as Phasianus soemmerringii ijimae, but with more claim to 

 recognition and record, as the latter is closely associated with 

 P. s. scintillans in a broken country easily transversed by the birds 

 in all directions, while Ithaginis cruentus affinis is found only at the 

 southern extremity of narrow mountain ridges, separated by deep 

 valleys which are never transversed by these lovers of high alti- 

 tudes. Indeed at the present time this form may be considered 

 all but extinct. 



