ORDER GALLINiE. ^ 



The following have naked orbits, and short tails : 



Crawfurd's Pheasant. Phasianus Crawfurdii. Gray 



Crown, with an erectile crest of subulate feathers; 

 orbits, large, naked, red-pale-brown ; feathers of the 

 neck, with a long white central stripe, and dark shaft ; 

 wing-coverts, white ; tail, pale-brown, with narrow, 

 rather wavy, black edged bands; spurs, short, low 

 down. Ava. Mr. Crawfurd. Length, fourteen 

 inches. 



Chittygong Pheasant. Lath. Hist. Phasianus 

 Muthura. Gray. 



Back and rump, fine glossy-green ; loins and wings, 

 chocolate-brown; throat, breast, and belly, white; 

 vent, dusky-brown; tail, even, rather compressed; 

 orbits, crimson, carunculated ; head and neck, deep 

 blue-black, slightly crested; spurs, short. India, 

 called Muthurau. Size of a turkey. 



Lineated Pheasant. Lath. Hist. Phasianus Hamil- 

 tonii. Gray. 



Fine blue ; chest, lineated ; feathers of the loins and 

 rump, edged with white at the tip ; orbits, naked, 

 red; secondaries and tail, greenish-black, slightly 

 dotted; quills, dark-brown; crest, long bristly, re- 

 tractile. 



Female, pale-chesnut, minutely vermiculated, and 

 dotted with dark-brown olive ; pale, beneath, and not 

 so distinctly varied ; all the feathers, pale lunated tips 

 and shafts; tail, middle, pale-brown, vermiculated with 

 black and pale narrow lines; sides, metallic olive- 

 ffrecn. Mus. General Hardwicke. 



