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PurpIe-tailed-Pheasant. 



Chalciirus chalcurns, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. 

 XXII, p. 361. 



This peculiar Sumatran Pheasant is closely allied to the Pea- 

 cock-Pheasants, but has the sides of the face feathered, and the 

 tail as long and narrow as in the typical Pheasants ; there are no 

 eye-spots, and the general plumage of both sisxes i-s pencilled 

 with light and dark brown ; the tail is of a glossy purplish blue 

 at the tip and sides. 



Intermediate Peacock-Pheasant. 



Chalcurus inopinatus, Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Ornith. 

 Club, Vol. XIII, p. 41. 



The close relationship of the last species with the Peacock- 

 Pheasants is proved by the recent discovery of this intermediate 

 form from Ulu Pahang in the Malayan Peninsula ; it has long 

 patches instead of eye-spots on the tail, which is shaped as in 

 C. chalcurus, but has eye-spots on the upper parts; the hen also- 

 bears faint editions of these. 



Lady Amherst's Pheasant. 



Chrysolophus amherstioe, Brit. Mus. Cat., 

 Birds, Vol. XXIT, p. 342. 



Native name : — Seng-ky, Chinese. 



The male of this species is a remarkable-looking 

 bird, not to be mistaken for anything else, though 

 the hen is not at all striking. The cock has a long 

 narrow crest from the back of the head, a cape or 

 ruff (which can be spread out like a fan) covering 

 the back of the neck, and an immensely long tail, 

 with the centre feathers particularly long and broad. 

 and arched transversely, so as to roof over the 

 rest. The upper tail-coverts are also very 

 long, and lie along the sides of the tail like the 

 ' ' side hangers " of a cock. The bare face, of a 



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