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which is really a very beautiful bird in its own way 

 and quite unlike anything else, so that if it really 

 is a hybrid, it is a very remarkable product. 



Cuvier's Kaleege. 



Gennceus cuvieri. Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 93- 



In tihis bird, which exactly resembles the Purple 

 Kaleege in shape, the plumage is also much like 

 that of that bird, being mostly purple-black with 

 white bars on the rump ; but the upper parts, 

 wings, and tail are all regularly but finely pencilled 

 with white lines. The marking, in fact, is that 

 of the Chinese Silver Pheasant reversed. All the- 

 tail-feathers are pencilled in this way, from the 

 centre pair to the outside, whereas in most of 

 these pencilled pheasants the marking differs on 

 the different feathers of the tail. 



The hen is brown with lighter edges to the 

 feathers, like that of the Purple Kaleege, but her 

 outer tail-feathers, instead of being plain black as 

 in the hen of that species, are pencilled with fine- 

 white lines like the plumage of her own mate. 



This species, which resembles the Purple Kaleege 

 in size, seems to be found in the most typical form 

 in the Chin Hills ; at any rate, some specimens I 

 have examined from there agree remarkably in 

 their plumage^ The figure given by Temminck, 

 who first described Genmeus cuvieri, also agrees 

 closely with the Chin Hills birds ; but Temminck 

 could give no locality for his specimen. 



At the same time, these Chin Hills kaleeges with 

 fine white pencilling on black may be merely 



