i6 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



remaining ventral plumage are chestnut. The lores and face are bufFy, and the chin 

 and throat are brown mottled with paler. 



The wing-coverts are chestnut mottled with black, the former predominating on 

 the visible portions. The medium coverts are edged with pale buffy white. The 

 primaries are brownish black, the outer webs bordered on the outermost flight feathers 

 and spotted on the inner ones with pale creamy buff. The secondaries are black, 

 dominately mottled with chestnut on the visible outer webs. The innermost secondaries 

 or tertiaries lining the upper inner margin of the wing are glossy purple. 



The medium upper tail-coverts are wholly scarlet, while in the longest coverts 

 this colour is confined to the greatly elongated tips, the basal two-thirds resembling 

 the central tail-feathers. The scarlet areas of these feathers are without barbules, stiff 

 and spine-like. 



The long, vaulted tail is composed of eighteen feathers, the two central ones being 

 quite different from the others. These are black, thickly ocellated with rounded pale- 

 brown spots. The terminal zone, loo mm. in length, is whitish buff. In the remainder 

 of the tail-feathers the spots have fused and run together, forming numerous oblique, 

 clouded, often somewhat irregular bars of pale brown. The tip is chestnut. This 

 chestnut tip increases from the second pair outward, until the outer pairs are wholly 

 brownish chestnut, mottled irregularly with black. 



Iris yellow; bill greenish yellow; legs and feet greenish horn. Length, 1050 

 mm.; culmen from nostril, 15; wing, 195; tail, 770; tarsus, 75 ; middle toe and claw, 

 60 mm. Spurs, slow of growth and never attaining any great length, but very sharp. 



Adult Female. — Sides of the crown tinged with rusty. Top of the head brown, 

 coarsely barred with pale buff and black. On the mantle the bars become more 

 numerous and the pale buff is confined to the much-mottled terminal bar, the remainder 

 being black and rufous. Lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts olive brown, finely 

 vermiculated with black. Scapulars and wing-coverts much like the top of the head, 

 with wide bars of black alternating with more narrow ones of buff, the terminal buffy 

 bar somewhat broken with mottling. Primaries and secondaries brownish black, 

 irregularly barred with buff on the outer web and rufous on the inner. 



Central tail-feathers mottled olive brown with numerous irregular and imperfect 

 cross-bars of black. Wide tips pale buff. Outer tail-feathers dull rufous mottled, or 

 in some individuals indistinctly barred with clouded black and buff. 



Face fully feathered, buffy white with faint tips of black. Chin and throat white, 

 washed with buff. Remainder of ventral plumage, including lower throat, breast, sides, 

 flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts, creamy buff, narrowly barred with brownish black 

 except on the belly, which is unmarked. 



Iris hazel brown ; bill yellowish horn colour ; legs and feet dark yellowish horn. 

 Length, 650 mm.; bill from nostril, 14; wing, 175; tail, 375; tarsus, 70; middle toe 

 and claw, 55 mm. 



Chick in Down. — No facial markings. Top of head and nape warm golden buff, 

 darkening toward centre in a narrow wedge, paling on face into creamy buff and on chin, 

 throat and under parts into creamy white. Back, wings and tail-down chocolate brown 



