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19. Calophasis burmannicus. The Burmese Bareed-backbd Pheasant. 



Yit, Burma. 



Mantle maroon. Eump black, each feather broadly margined white. Wing- 

 bar imperfect, mixed chestnut. Mid-tail and next four pairs distinctly barred 

 chestnut. (0. 63.) 



Also C. ellioti. Elliot's Pheasant from S.E. China. $ 32". Sides of neck and belly white. 

 9 20". Throat and foreneok black. Eggs (17 x 1-3) creamy buff. (O.G. ii. 41.) 



Note. — In Gennceus the tail is longer than the wing in males, and as long as 

 the wing in females. 



Genus GENN^ffiUS. 



Crest long and hairy, of unequal feathers in both sexes. Tail longer than wing 

 in males and equal to the wing in females ; of sixteen feathers, long and laterally 

 compressed like that of the game fowl. Sides of head naked, crimson, in both 

 sexes, with additional lappet in males. Male with spur on each tarsus. Forest 

 birds, inhabiting the Himalayas, Burma, China, and Formosa. They may be 

 separated into Kalij and Silver Pheasants, viz. — 



KALIJ PHEASANTS. 



With upper plumage black, fringed white or black. Plumage lanceolate 

 {G. horsfieldi excepted). 



20. Genneeus albicristatus. The White-orbsted Kalij Pheasant. 



Ka.\\'}f Kumaoji ; Kookera, .Jfossoorie ; Kaleysur, ZmZm; Ko\s3l, Punjab. 



$ 24" to 29"; 2 J lbs. ? 20" to 23"; 1^ to 21 lbs. Legs grey-brown. Bill 

 greenish. — Male: Head, neck, upper back, wings, and tail blue-black. Crest 

 long, white, and hairy. Lower back and rump black, broadly fringed dull white. 

 Eye-patch crimson. Throat and breast hackled light grey ; below long grey 

 hackles with white shafts. — Female : Light brown, with each feather fringed 

 white-brown and showing shaft white. Chin whitish. Tail except mid pair 

 glossy black. — Young assume full plumage in first year. In the Himalayas from 

 Kumaon to Hazara, not W. of Indus or in Nepal. Breed from April to June. 

 Eight or nine eggs (1-94 x 1-4:4), cream-white to reddish buff, glossy and finely 

 pitted. (J. 810. B. 1336.) See illustration, p. 76. 



21. Gennaeus leucomelanus. The Black-cbestbd or Nepal Kalij Pheasant. 



Kalich, Rechabo, Nepal. 



^ 23" to 26", tail from vent, lOf" to 12"; If to ^ lbs. $ 19" to 20J"; IJ 

 to 2 lbs. Legs brown. Bill greenish. Orbital skin crimson. Small black crest. — 

 Male : Eump and upper taU-coverts dark green, white-tipped. Feathers of throat 

 and breast grey-white and lanceolate. Lower plumage variegated, not black. — 

 Female as in G. albicristatus, but generally darker and middle rectrices more 

 rufous. Throughout Nepal. Usually seen in pairs, or in parties of from three to 

 ten. (H. & M. i. 191. B. 1337. O.G. i. 262. 0. 68.) 

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