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the closed wing measures about eight and-a-half 

 inches, and the shank nearly three. The hen has 

 a very much shorter tail, this being only seven 

 inches long ; but her wing is only about half an 

 inch less than the cock's. 



Mr. Hume discovered this bird in Manipur in 

 1881. He only got two specimens, both males, and 

 very few have since been procured. The species has, 

 however, been found to also inhabit the Ruby Mines 

 District in Upper Burma, as also the Shan States. 



Burmese male birds commonly have the whit? 

 edging of the rump-feather so much broader than 

 in the typical birds, that the whole of that part of 

 the back looks silver-white rather than scaled as 

 in the ordinary form, but I do not consider them 

 distinct, although Mr. Gates has named the Bur- 

 mese bird — just distinguished as a variety by me — 

 as a distinct species, burmannfcus. 



Elliot's Pheasant. 



Phasianus ellioti, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. XXII, 

 P- 335- 



The male of this species, from the South-Eastern Chinese moun- 

 tains, is readily distinguished from Hume's Pheasant by the white 

 abdomen and white sides of the neck ; the hen, in addition 

 to the white abdomen, difiers from the Hume's Pheasant hen by 

 having a black throat. The eggs are pale buff. Unlike most 

 pheasants, it is a wandering bird, and does not haunt one local- 

 ity ; it is well known in captivity in Evirope. 



Copper Pheasant. 



Phasianus sommerringi, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. 



XXII, p. 336. 

 Native name : — Kee-es, Japanese. 



The Copper Pheasant does not inhabit the whole of Japan, 

 but only Hondo and Kiu-siu ; the cock is chestnut in colour, mth 



