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hope, through the zeal of Captain Bogle and his friends, 

 soon to be made acquainted with. 



It is therefore probable that we shall be indebted to the 

 very first step in the new arrangement that has been made 

 for the transmission of animals to England, for a knowledge 

 of two species of pheasant previously unknown, or in other 

 words, that two out of the three kinds sent by Captain 

 Bogle from Arracan to the Barrackpore Menagerie are 

 likely to prove new to science. One of these appears to 

 have been forwarded to the Zoological Society in 1833 by 

 George Swinton, Esq. a corresponding member ; and was 

 noticed by Mr. Gould as the lineated pheasant of Latham, 

 vid. Proc. 1833, p. 13. 



" The beak," says Mr. Gould, " is strong, and considerably 

 arched, the naked space round the eye bright red, and co- 

 vered with numerous papilla : the head crested with long 

 bluish black feathers ; the back of the neck, and the whole 

 of the upper surface delicate grey, very numerously barred 

 with fine zigzag lines of black, which are broader than the 

 quill feathers ; the throat, breast, and belly, black ; the 

 sides of the breasts and flanks having white lanceolate fea- 

 thers with black edges ; the tail of eighteen feathers, very 

 much graduated and arched as in the silver pheasant (Pha- 

 sianus nycthemerus, Lin.) The outer edge of the centre fea- 

 thers, and the tips of the two next being white, the re- 

 mainder are alternately marked with irregular lines of black 

 and white ; the black predominating, and the legs strong, of 

 a reddish flesh colour, furnished with conical sharp spurs." 

 This is an accurate description of the birds received from 

 Arracan, except the remark regarding the colour of the 

 legs which is grey; and had Mr. Gould at the time been 

 acquainted with the Phasianus lineatus, Lath, figured on 

 the authority of Mr. Gray and General Hardwicke, Illust. 

 Ind. Zoology, he would have seen that the subject of the 

 above remarks was a distinct species. Two males and fe- 

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