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Dr. Sclater' has recently suggested that the female of this species is the bird 

 which Mr. Gould has reproduced iu his Birds of Asia as the female of C.prcelatus. 

 Mr. Gould's figure is founded on a drawing of a female pheasant which was 

 obtained by Crawfurd on his mission to Ava, and on which drawing Dr. J. E. 

 Gray established the species P. crawfurdi described in Grifiith's Cuvier's Animal 

 Kingdom.'^ The evidence, however, of the identity of P. crawfurdi with E. andersoni 

 is not so complete as to entitle us to accept the name P. crawfurdi which 

 is applicable only to a drawing. 



Genus THAUMALEAjWagler. 

 187. Thaumalea amhersti^, Leadb. 



P Jmsiamis amhersti(E, ljQ2idh.,llr2inQ. lainn. Soc.,\o\. xvi, p. 129, PL 15, 1829; Temm., PI. CoL, 



82iid. livr., 1830. 

 Thaumalea amherstice, Wagl., Isis, 1832, p. 1228; Gray, List B., Brit. Mus., vol. iii, p. 24, 1844 ; 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 246, 1849 ; Bonap., C. R., xlii, p. 879, 1856; Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soe., 1863, p. 117; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 307; Elliot, Monogr. Phas., 



ii, pi. xiv, 1872; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xviii, 1866. 

 Epomia amherstii, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85, 1844. 

 Chrysoloplms amherstia, Gray, List Gall., p. 29, 1867 ; id., Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 258, 1870. 



a. $ Muangla, May 1868. 



b. $ Momien, June 1868. 



This splendid bird occurs on the hills between Sanda and Momien, and in the 

 country to the north and west. The tail feathers are largely used as plumes for 

 the war hats of the Panthay Officers, and it is a well known bird to the hillmen 

 generally. I obtained the cock at Muangla, and the hen at Momien, and since 

 the expedition of 1868 a living male was sent down to Bhamo, from whence it was 

 forwarded to the Chief Commissioner, the Hon'ble A. Eden. 



Genus Phasianus, Linn. 



188. Phasianus sladeni, Andr. Plate LII. 



Phasianus sladeni, M.S. Anderson, Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc, June, 1870, pp. 404, 408; Anderson, 

 op. cit., 1871, p. 214 (pars). 



a.8fb.tc.8fd.% Momien, June 1868. (5,000 ft.). 



The forehead, head, nape, chin, and throat deep metallic green ; the sides and 

 lower part of the neck and the throat intense metallic purple ; ear-coverts brown- 

 ish-black, with faint green reflexions ; the region of the eye and the sides of the 

 face naked, reddish scarlet ; the shafts of the interscapulars and dorsal feathers 

 yellowish ; all the dorsal feathers black at the base ; interscapulars and humerals 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1876, p. 274 



2 1. cvol.viii, p. 27, 1829. 



