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Newbury, Berks, in October 1864, while Mr. E. Lort Phillips 

 had likewise presented the immature male shot by himself 

 on the Island of Tiree on the 25th of October, 1901. The 

 other specimen had been caught near Cardiff in the spring 

 of 1888, and presented by Mr. Proger to the Zoological 

 Gardens, Regent's Park. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker exhibited a pair of Pheasants of 

 the genus Ithagenes, which had been obtained by Capt. F. 

 M. Bailey in the Mishmi Hills, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



''These two birds appear to belong to the subspecies 

 llhagenes cruentus kuseri recently described by Mr. William 

 C. Beebe from two specimens in the Paris Museum. 



" The Paris specimens, both males, one of which is now in 

 the British Museum collection, were obtained in Yunnan, a 

 very considerable distance from the Mishmi Hills, and the male 

 bird sent from this latter place differs from them in several 

 particulars. Generally speaking, the colours are deeper and 

 more vivid, the grey is everywhere darker, and the crimson 

 richer and still more extended on the lower parts *. The white 

 striae on the back are narrower and less conspicuous, whilst, 

 on the other hand, those on the wing-quills are broader. 

 These quills also appear to be darker and the secondaries, 

 especially the innermost, are less broadly edged with whitish- 

 buff. In I. c. kuseri the inner quills are much mottled 

 with buff, whereas in this bird they are immaculate except 

 for the broad white strise. These buff mottlings are, 

 however, almost certainly signs of immaturity and the 

 other differences may be due to the same cause, so I refrain 

 from giving a name to these specimens. 



" I should note that a second male received from Capt. 

 Bailey through Dr. Annandale, of the Calcutta Museum, is 

 exactly like the one now described. 



" The female of 7. c. kuseri has never been described. It 

 differs from the female of I. cruentus in being very much 



* [The specimens in the Paris Museum have been mounted and exposed 

 for some years to the light. — Ed.] 



