196 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



Chick in Down. — One-day-old male. Crown dark chestnut, beginning at a point 

 at base of bill and widening and paling posteriorly. Broad superciliary bands from 

 bill to nape pale buffy white. Narrow line 6 mm. long, down and back from the eye 

 to the ear, black. Broad line from ear back to nape, dark brown. The broad chestnut 

 crown narrows and darkens on the nape, and extends back to the base of the tail as a 

 broad, dark-brown band, paling laterally into rufous. On the sides of the lower back 

 two wide longitudinal bands of buff separate the dark brown from the rufous. Down 

 of the upper arm and shoulder of wing dark brown anteriorly, paling posteriorly. Fore 

 arm grey ; alulae white. Under wings white. Tail down buffy rufous. 



Chin, throat, belly, inner thighs and under tail, creamy white. Breast washed with 

 rufous buff. Outer thighs pale rufous. Skin of eyelids bluish ; cere, base of mandibles 

 and facial skin pink. Mandibles grey, edges and egg tooth yellowish white. Legs 

 and feet pale flesh-colour. Spurs, distinct oval nodules. Iris, stone-colour. 



EARLY HISTORY AND SYNONYMY 



In 1 87 1 Swinhoe secured a pair of pheasants in Chekiang which he recognized as 

 representing a new species, and named in honour of Dr. D. G. Elliot. He very 

 naturally placed them in the all-inclusive genus Phasianus, but Elliot, recognizing the 

 several differences which separate this from the true Phasiamts, established for it the 

 new generic name Calophasis. While agreeing with this in theory, I have found it 

 agreeable to my researches to include this and its allies htimiae and burmanicus in the 

 genus Syrmatictis. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus ellioti Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 550 [Chekiang]; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 497; 

 David & Oustalet, Oiseaux de la Chine 1877, p. 412 [Chekiang, Eastern Fokien] ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, 

 p. 631 ; Sclater, List Animals Zool. Soc, London, 1883, p. 480 ; Beddard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 844 ; La Touche, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 410 [Yen-ping-fu Hills] ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXH, 1893, P- 335 ; Nehrkorn, Katalog der 

 Eiersammlung, 1899, p. 194 [N.W. Fokien]; La Touche, Ibis, 1900, p. 49 ; Rickett, Ibis, 1900, p. 59 [Fokien]; 

 Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904 (2), p. 129; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV. 1904, p. 37; La Touche & 

 Rickett, Ibis, 1905, p. 58 [Kuatun, Fokien]; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXI. 1907, pp. 23, 24, 25 ; Mitchell, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 191 1, p. 521 ; Lanning, Wild Life in China, 1912, p. 116. 



Calophasis ellioti Elliot, Monograph Phasianidae, II. 1872, text, pi. XIII. bis.; Gould, Birds of Asia, VII. 

 1874, text, pi. 23; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, II. 1897, P- 4i ; Seth-Smith, Avicultural Magazine, IV. 1898, 

 p. 142; Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, I. 1899, p. 38; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., I. 1901, p. 58; Rothschild, 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV 1904, p. 58 ; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXI. 1907, p. 23 ; Heinroth, Zoologi- 

 scher Beobachter, XLIX. 1908, p. 21 ; Martens, Jour, fiir Orn. 1910, p. 449 [Fokien]; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1911, p. 862. 



Gallophasis ellioti Hume, Ibis, 1881, p. 608. 



Syrmaticus Ellioti, Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 15, 1914, p. 283. 



