GENN^TTS. 55 



Gennaeus horsfleldi {Gray). 



GaUophasis horsfieldi, Mitchell, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 644, Aves, pi. cxlix. 



fig- 1- 

 Euplocamus horsfieldi, Hume ^ Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. 197 (1879) ; 



Oates ed. Hume, Nests Sr Eggs Ind. B. hi. p. 416 (1890). 

 Gennseua horsfieldi, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 302 (1893) ; Oates, 



Game Birds Ind. i. p. 334 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 35 (1899). 



_ The eggs of the Black-breasted Kalij Pheasant vary from 

 pinkish buff to reddish cream-colour. Many specimens are thickly 

 speckled with white calcareous matter. They measure from 1-8 to 

 2-05 in length, and from 1-4 to 1-5 in breadth. 



3. [Assam.] Gould Coll. 



2. Khowang, Dibrughur, 22iid March . Hume Coll. 



(J. a. Cripps). 



3. Sylhet, 10th March. Hume Coll. 

 1. Machi, Manipur, 3rd May (A. O. Hume Coll. 



Sume). 



GennsBus lineatus ( Vig.). 

 (Plate VI. fig. 5.) 



Euplocamus lineatus, Sume Sr Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. 205 (1897) ; 



Oates ed. Hume, Nests Sr Eggs Ind. B. ill. p. 416 (1890). 

 GennsBus lineatus. Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 304 (1893) ; Oates, 



Game Birds Ind. i. p. 351 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 36 (1899). 



The eggs of the Lineated Silver Pheasant are of a pale reddish-buff 

 colour, and the pores are rather conspicuous, owing to their being 

 somewhat paler than the other parts of the shell. They measure 

 from 1'75 to 1-95 in length, and from 1-4 to 1-5 in breadth. 



1. Pegu Hills, 17th April (E. W. Oates). Hume Coll. 



4. Yonzalin River, Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



16th March (C. T. Bingham). 



GennsBus nyctliemerus_(-£m».). 



Phasianus nycthemerus, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. p. 19, tab. vii. fig. 4 



(1845-54). 

 Gennseus nycthemerus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 65. fig. 6 (1856-63) ; 



Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 307 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. 



p. 36 (1899). 



The eggs of the Chinese Silver Pheasant vary in colour from pale 

 buff to reddish buff. They measure from 1"9 to 2-15 in length, and 

 from 1*5 to 1*6 in breadth. 



6. [China.] Gould Coll. 



8. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- Zool. Society. 



dens, London). 

 3. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



dens, London). 



