1900.] F. Finn & H. H. Turner— Two Fare Indian Pheasants. 145 



low through the bushes it crossed just in front of me. Unfortunately 

 the bird was not well skinned and I had to throw this specimen away. 



The specimen that I have retained is a full-grown cock ; the other 

 one was a young cock without the long tail ; the plumage was otherwise 

 identical with that of the other bird. The hill on which I obtained 

 these specimens was between 4000 and 5000 feet high, being one of 

 the spurs of the Chin Hills running down into the Kale valley, and 

 the birds were close to the Fort Kalemyo — Fort White road, just about 

 at milestone 20. The latitude is approximately 23°, and the longitude 

 approximately 94°.] 



Gennseus davisoni ? 



A pair of Kalij procured by Lieutenant Turner appear to come 

 nearest to what Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant (Cat. B. M. Birds, vol. xxii, 

 p. 304), and Dr. W. T. Blanford (Faun. Brit, Ind., Birds, vol. iv, 

 p. 95), call by the above name. The male resembles that of G. Jiorsfieldi 

 in size, and in form of tail, and possesses equally well-marked white 

 bands on the feathers of the lower back and rump. It differs, however, 

 markedly in having the feathers of the upper surface behind the head, 

 wings, and tail, all clearly though finely pencilled with white irregular 

 lines, the line on ' the white-tipped back and rump feathers which 

 precedes the white band at the tip being separated from it by a black 

 space about equal in breadth to the band itself. A few of the feathers 

 of the black under- surface arc similarly but less clearly pencilled with 

 white upon their outer webs. 



It is thus intermediate between G. Jiorsfieldi and G. andersoni* 

 (with the type of which I have compared it) but far more nearly 

 approaches the former, not having the long curved tail and crest of 

 the latter, and with the white pencillings much reduced in breadth 

 and less regular. There is also no tendency to plain whiteness in the 

 middle or to blackness in the outer tail-feathers, all being equally 

 black with white pencilling. It must also very closely resemble Mr. 

 E. W. Oates' G. williamsi from the same district, (" The Game Birds of 

 India," vol. i, p. 342) ; but that bird has the light markings of the 

 plumage buff and not white, except for the barring on the rump. It 

 is quite different in character from the Asiatic Society's specimens of 

 forms intermediate between G. Jiorsfieldi and G. lineatus, the white 

 markings in these being blurred and indistinct. 



* I have dealt with the question of the type of Q. andersoni of Messrs. Elliot, 

 Blanford, and Ogilvie-Grant in the Ibis (1899, p. 331), and photographs of this are 

 now in the British Museum. The O. andersoni of Mr. Oates' work is the G. davisoni 

 of the " Fauna " and the " Catalogue." [P.F.] 

 J. ii. 19 



