U6 F. Finn & H. H. Turner— Two Bare Indian Pheasants. [No. 2, 



The female is like that of G. liorsfieldi, but paler and duller, and 

 with the stippling of the plumage more distinct ; the black lateral 

 tail-feathers also are pencilled with white, as in the male, but less 

 regularly, and the pencilling tends to die out at the tips of the outer 

 pairs. 



This sex also therefore appears to closely correspond with Mr. 

 Oates' G. williamsi, except again for the white pencilling, which also 

 does not tend to disappear on the outermost feathers to the extent 

 indicated by Mr. Oates. The facial skin in both birds has evidently 

 been red, and the bill and feet horn-coloured, as iu G. liorsfieldi. 



This form is thus distinguishable from any as yet described, and, 

 if it should be thought worthy of a name, might be called G. turneri, 

 after its discoverer ; but I am very much averse to giving names to 

 these numerous and variable forms of Gennceus, and hence range it 

 provisionally under that subspecies of G. liorsfieldi to which it bears 

 the most resemblance. To G. lineatus I should say that it had no 

 relationship, unless G. andersoni be indeed, as Dr. Blanford suggests, 

 a cross between this species and G. nycthemerus. But without breeding 

 together G. nycthemerus, G. liorsfieldi, and G. lineatus in confinement 

 and noting the result, I do not see how the status of these numerous 

 more or less pencilled forms of the genus is to be settled. The buff 

 pencilling in some of the species described by Mr. Oates is peculiarly 

 difficult to account for, except on the supposition that they are all 

 really distinct, which seems to me most improbable a priori. 



[The two (cock and hen) Kalij were shot by me on the 15th 

 March, 1900, on the road between Kalewa and Minza, Kalewa being an 

 important village on the Chindwin from whence supplies are sent up to 

 the Chin Hills ; Minza is a small village 20 miles or so to the south of 

 Kalewa, the birds being shot about 12 miles from Kalewa. When first I 

 saw them they were in the thick bushes on the bank of a small stream, 

 but they immediately flew into the bamboo jungle, and it was here that 

 I shot them. I shot another the next morning close to the same spot, 

 but my dog so spoilt the skin that I had to eat the bird instead of 

 skinning it, and very excellent eating it was. I had already shot a hen 

 of this species (I think there is little doubt that it was the same, though 

 rather darker than the female I mentioned above) at Yasygo, a village 

 in the Kale valley about 50 miles to the north. It was shot, however, 

 at such close quarters that the skin was ruined. 



The latitude in which the above pair were found is approximately 

 23°, and the longitude approximately 94° 30' ; the elevation was between 

 600 and 800 feet.] 



