72 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



The dimensions are also as in the previous spe- 

 cies, the cock being about two feet long and the 

 hen about twenty inches. This bird's range extends 

 from the lower hills of East Bhootan and the 

 Daphla country, north of the Assam valley, through- 

 out the ranges to the southward to Chittagong, 

 North Arrakan, South Manipur and Bhamo. Its 

 eggs, which resemble those of the preceding kalee- 

 ges, have been found in Sylhet towards the end of 

 March. It has been tried as a game-bird in English 

 preserves, but though it throve well, was killed 

 off again as a nuisance, being very pugnacious to 

 the true pheasants, hard to put up, and flying 

 dangerously low for shooting when it could be 

 made to rise. 



The Lineated Kaleege or Burmese Silver 

 Pheasant. 



GenneBus lineatus. Faun. Brit. Ind.. Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 92. 



Native names : — Yit, Kayit, Burmese ; 

 Rak, Arrakanese ; Synklouk, Talain ; 

 Phugyk, Karen. 



This is a slightly larger bird than the last, but 

 of the same t5^e as regards the narrow stifiish 

 crest and rather short taU ; its colouration is, how- 

 ever, of a quite different character. 



The male is blue-black only on the crest and on 

 the under-parts ; the flanks are also black, with 

 white streaks in the centres of the feathers, which 

 streaking may extend over aU of the breast also. 

 But the upper plumage, wings, and tail, are of a 



