LINEATED KALEEGE • 6i 



stripe, slightly bordered with black ; many of the stripes are split with brown basally ; 

 inner webs of the primaries and secondaries dark brown ; outer webs of the primaries 

 olive-brown, and those of the secondaries mottled, and with coarse, broken vermicu- 

 lations of paler buff along the margins. 



Middle tail-feathers yellowish-buff; on the inner webs this colour is clear, with 

 sparse basal dotting of dark brown ; the outer webs are brokenly vermiculated with 

 dark brown, basally these marks becoming heavy, oblique lines of chestnut, bordered 

 with black ; the second pair shows this latter pattern intensified, while in the next 

 four pairs the buffy background clears to white, and the equality of pigmentation 

 gives the effect of successive oblique bars of chestnut and white, the former bordered 

 strongly with black ; the outermost, shortest rectrices are dominately chestnut, with 

 irregular mottling of dark brown on both webs. 



Chin, throat and upper neck greyish white ; remainder of under-parts brownish- 

 chestnut, deepest on the lower breast ; all of the feathers with a narrow shaft-stripe 

 of white, usually bordered with black, and with the feathers, especially of the posterior 

 portions, more or less distinctly cross-barred with black. 



Mandibles horny brown, with a varying amount of black pigment, especially 

 toward the base ; facial skin scarlet, covered rather sparsely with fleshy papillae and 

 a very few minute degenerate feathers, and not developed into wattles ; irides hazel- 

 brown ; feet and legs flesh-colour or brownish ; spurs often present, but very small. 

 Weight, 2 to 2^ lbs. Length, 550 mm. ; bill from nostril, 20 ; wing, 225 ; tail, 225 ; 

 tarsus, 75 ; middle toe and claw, 55 ; spurs never more than 3 mm., and usually a 

 flat scalule. 



Chick in Down. — Pale rufous on the forehead, warmer on the crown, with a 

 reddish-chestnut post-orbital line. Reddish-brown above, with two lighter, lateral 

 lines, paling into buffy-white below, the breast being warm rufous. 



Immature Male. — Like female, changing slowly to the adult male plumage, 

 which it attains usually in the third year. 



EARLY HISTORY 



In 1823 Latham gave a good account of this kaleege, which he called the 

 Lineated Pheasant. He says the description was given him by Dr. Buchanan, and 

 was taken from a bird in an aviary in India. Its home was uncertain. No further 

 reference is found until 1831. Vigors than called the bird Phasianus lineahis, having 

 in hand a specimen sent from the Straits of Malacca. Lesson, in the same year, 

 re-described it under the name Faisan de Reynaut [Phasianus Reynaudii), and in 

 his sole comment, ''du Pegu," gave us the first correct information as to its home. 

 Bdlanger, in his "Voyages aux Indes Orientales," in 1834, gave two plates of the 

 Lineated Kaleege. 



SYNONYMY 



Lineated Pheasant Latham, Gen. Hist., VI 1 1, 1823, p. 201. 



Phasianus lineatus Vigors, Phil. Mag., 1831, p. 147 ; Vigors, Proc. Zool. See, London, 1831, p. 24; Jardine 

 and Selborne, 111. Orn., 1836, n.s. pi. 12. 



