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eral color above was olive brown, very minutely ver- 

 miculated with black, except along the margins of the 

 feathers, where the black dying out, the pure olive 

 brown showed paler and clearer. The primaries were 

 brownish black, densely mottled with grayish-brown 

 on the outer webs. The secondaries were similar, with 

 the color of the outer webs changing into that of the 

 coverts and remainder of the upper plumage. 



The chin and throat were whit§, tinged with 

 brown along the margins. On the under parts the light 

 color persisted as a well-defined buffy shaft-stripe. The 

 rest of the feather was clear olive-brown, with but little 

 mottling except on the center of the lower breast and 

 abdomen, where the entire feather was irregularly 

 blackened, especially along the enlarged shaft-stripe. 

 The under tail-coverts were the blackest of all the con- 

 tour feathers, most of them showing brown only along 

 the margin. The outer and median tail-feathers were 

 chestnut, obscurely but coarsely mottled with black. 

 Toward the central pairs the chestnut changed to a 

 brown, and the darker color became a coarse vermic- 

 ulation, the lines irregular and lying obliquely to the 

 shaft. 



The facial skin was scarlet; the irides light hazel; 

 legs and feet pale neutral, leaden gray. 

 I have, gone into this in detail to show what variation 

 I found among the females of this group of Pheasants. 



7. Adult male. One of the solitary males was horsfieldi 

 in length of tail and general markings, except that 

 there was more vermiculation on the central tail- 

 feathers than I have seen in any bird from Assam, and 

 the inner wing-coverts were very strongly margined 

 with white. 



8. Adult male. The second male I shot on sight, and at 

 such close range that I nearly blew it to pieces. At 

 first glance it seemed to be a Silver Pheasant 

 (nycthemerus) and stood out sharply from all its com- 

 panions on both the occasions when I watched it work- 



