672 AVES, 



pale golden-red and lurid red and golden ; a triangular black spot at the tips of the 

 feathers, and the margins fringed with black ; the upper back reddish-chestnut, 

 obscurely margined with lurid golden with yellowish-red and violet reflexions ; the 

 shafts of the feathers white ; the breast intense steel-blue, with brilliant green and 

 violet reflexions ; the lower breast obscurely spotted with reddish scarlet ; the sides of 

 the body pale golden chestnut or reddish-brown, broadly subf asciated and narrowly 

 and distantly lined with black, with lurid golden reflexions ; the middle of the 

 abdomen shining bluish-green ; the wing-coverts brown and very broadly margined 

 with cinereous, with violet reflexions ; the quills brown, banded with fulvous. 

 The specimens were brought to me without their tails. 



Above brownish-black, the feathers margined with brownish-yellow ; the 

 interscapulars reddish margined with pale brown ; the chin and throat white ; 

 below greyish-brown ; the belly faintly lined with brown ; the sides of the abdo- 

 men with large dart-shaped brownish-black markings ; the quills brown, spotted 

 and banded with blackish-brown and washed with rufous. 



Common on the grassy hills around Momien. 



I have another hen pheasant from the same locality, but differing from the 

 female of this species in the following particulars, viz., the under parts are tawny, 

 and the breast and sides of the abdomen are only feebly spotted with reddish- brown. 



The two males in my possession are alike in every particular. 



It appears to be closely allied to P. versicolor and P. torquatus. It is affined 

 to the former species by its colourless neck, pale tipped rump, and greyish wino*- 

 coverts, andr deeply coloured breast and belly, but differs from it in having the 

 lower breast obscurely spotted with reddish scarlet, and the sides of its abdomen 

 richly but broadly semif asciated. The rump, breast, interscapulars and sides have 

 a strong resemblance to P. torquatus. 



It differs from P. elegans, with which I was at first disposed to think it as 

 identical, by the dark metallic bluish- green being continued much further down the 

 back of the neck, in the darker colour of the rump, which has less green in it, and 

 in the absence of black and white concentric wavy lines in the centres of the feathers 

 of the wing-coverts, and in this respect it is allied to P. sJiawi and to P. insignis. 



Genus Francolinus, Stephens. 

 189. Teancolinus peelatus, Gm. 



La perdrise porUe de la Chine^ Buff., Hist. Nat. des Ois., t. ii, 1772, p. 452. 

 I'earkd partridge, Lath., Syn., vol. ii, 1781, p. 648; Genl. Hist. B., vol. viii, 1823, p. 276. 

 Tetrao sinensis, Osbeck., Voy. en Chine, 1771, p. 326. 

 Tetrao perlatus, Gm., Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i, pt. ii, p. 758, 13th ed., 1788. 

 ]?erdix sinensis, Brisson, Ornith., vol. i, 1790, p. 234, pi. xxviiiA, fig. 1, 



Ferdix perlata, Temm., Pig. and Gall., vol. iii, 1815, p. 326; Vieillot, Galerie des Oiseaux, tome 

 ii, 1825, p. 41, tab. ccxiii. 



