26 CLASS AVES. 



naked, red ; rest of head, lower part of neck, and 

 thighs, black ; wing-covert feathers of the lower part 

 of body white, with two diverging black streaks, and 

 reddish edges ; tail, very long graduated ; feathers, 

 whitish in the middle, brown on the edge, and with 

 black lunule cross bands ; quills, black-brown, reddish 

 banded. Length of body, twenty-nine inches ; of tail, 

 twenty-eight inches. China. Mr. Reeves. 



The tail-feather, figured by Dr. Latham as the Bar 

 Tailed Pheasant, t. 124, may belong to this bird ; 

 but his description of the bird evidently belongs to 

 another species, probably P. Amherstice. 



Pakraas Pheasant, Phasianus Pucrasse, Gray. 



Ashy-grey ; feathers, with a brownish streak down the 

 shaft, and a black-brown one on each side of it; 

 head, black-green, with a crest of long black-green 

 feathers ; sides of the neck, white ; chest and vent 

 varied with chesnut ; tail, short, wedge-shaped, above, 

 chesnut ; beneath, dark brown, white tipt ; bill, black ; 

 orbits, small, red ; quills, brown-edged. Length, 

 nineteen inches ; crest, six inches. The brown on the 

 crest perhaps a stain. Almorah Hills. General Hard- 

 wick. 



The hen .'* not crested, and spurless. 



Sylhet Pheasant, Lath. H. Phasianus Lathami, 

 Gray. 



Glossy violet-black ; crest of several long loose 

 feathers; loins and rump, with white lunule spots ; tail, 

 longish, compressed; outer feathers, white fringed at the 

 top ; quills, dusty-brown ; orbits, very large, crim- 

 son, carunculated ; spurs, long. Length, three feet. 

 India. Sylhet. Sir J. Anstruther. 



