1914] Beebe: Revieiv of the Genus, Germseus. 317 



I see no reason why we should not distinguish them by a distinct 

 name. They would assuredly have as much right to one as 

 Carpodacus mutans, the House Finch which was introduced less 

 than forty years ago into the Hawaiian Islands by man, and 

 which has received this new specific name^ because its colors 

 are now yellow or orange instead of crimson. 



These Kaleege are four in number, sharpei, ripponi, oatesi 

 and cuvierL... The first two are perhaps most worthy of inclu- 

 sion in the list of tentative hybrid species, and until we learn 

 more of the range and variation of the remaining two, I shall 

 give them the benefit of the doubt, and a place in this category. 

 G. williamsi is a form quite widely distributed within the limits 

 of horsfieldi between the Chin Mountains and the Irrawaddy, 

 and farther to the west, but the few specimens I have seen were 

 too variable to consider them even tentatively as other than 

 fairly homogeneous hybrids. 



I shall take up the four in order. 



Gennaeus sharpei. 



Lineatus is found normally from sea-level up to a height 

 of seventeen hundred and rarely two thousand feet, almost never 

 higher, although I have one pair of these birds, almost typical, 

 from Thandung, Toungoo, at forty-three hundred feet. Its 

 range includes much of central Lower Burma on both banks 

 of the Irrawaddy, as far east as 99° East Longitude. Well with- 

 in this area and throughout a north and south distance of more 

 than four hundred and twenty miles, specimens of the pheasant 

 named sharpei have been taken. Usually the points of capture 

 have been at considerable elevations, none lower than two 

 thousand feet and ranging upward to six thousand. So it seems 

 that, quite within the range of one of the parent species, a sub- 

 ordinate form has gained a foothold and, produced by the cross- 

 ing of lineatus probably with nycthemerus, has by reason of a 

 consistantly inhabited, higher elevation, been able to establish 

 itself, and to extend in a considerable direction north and south. 



Ghigi says in regard to sharpei, the translation being given 

 as literally as possible: *'We have seen how G. sharpei differs 

 from lineatus in the fact that the upper parts rather than 



1 Grinnell, The Auk, XXIX. 1912, p. 24. 



