KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 56. N:0 2. 157 
Silver Pheasants belonging to this species were rather common in the dense ever- 
green jungles which cover the hills deviding Tenasserim and Siam. Especially at the 
neighbourhood of Hat Sanuk (Lat. N. 12°) they were exceedingly abundant though 
shy and difficult to obtain, because of their habits of ranning away among the dense under- 
growth instead of taking to the wings. I most often met with them in the evergreen 
jungles on the lower hills, but sometimes I also found them in the low-lying country a 
few miles from the coast. Here the vegetation chiefly consisted of bamboos. 
Quite recently Mr. Sruart Baxer has published a »Revision of the Genus Genneus» 
(Bombay. Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. 23, p. 658—689, 1915) and in this highly interesting 
and valuable paper he has exhaustively disgussed the characters and the geographical 
distribution of the different forms of Silver Pheasants. 
Two maps accompany this paper and on them Genneus lineatus Vic. is stated to 
occur in the Pegu Yomas and in Tenasserim to a little south of Moulmein. East of this 
area the allied Genneus sharpet OATES is said to occur, and this species has also been 
found in Northwestern Siam. On one of these maps a small area of land south of the 
distributional area of Genneeus lineatus and as far as the coast of the Bay of Bengal is 
marked as being inhabited by G. sharpei. This seems a little doubtful to me and is pro- 
bably a mistake because I found quite typical specimens of Genneus lineatus in the 
country situated further south. 
The discovery of a Silver Pheasant as far south as about Lat. N. 12° is a most 
remarkable fact and it adds a considerable distance to the southern extension of the 
family. 
Mr. Rosinson has not recorded any Silver Pheasants from the Siamese Province 
of Bandon, but GatRDNER found them rather common in the Ratburi and Petchaburi 
Districts of Siam between Lat. N. 12° 40' and 14° 10’. 
[I also take the opportunity of correcting a mistake in Stuart BaKkeEr’s paper. 
He there says in his description of the adult male of Genneus lineatus (p. 676) that 
»the outer webs of the central rectrices are more or less white». It of course ought to 
be the inner webs of the central rectrices.] 
During my stay in Northwestern Siam I once caught a glimpse of a Silver Pheas- 
ant when I was climbing up one of the steep hills at Doi Par Sakeng. As far as I could 
make out, it looked much more white than a specimen of G. lineatus and was probably a 
specimen of G. nycthemerus rippont SHARPE which inhabits the Southern Shan States and 
the adjoining country. Unfortunately I did not obtain a specimen from Upper Siam 
so it is still unknown which species inhabits the most northern parts of the country. 
350. Gallus gallus. Linn. — The Red Jungle Fowl. 
Gallus gallus: Grant p. 122; Robinson II p. 721; Bonhote p. 78; Robinson I p. 87; Robinson II p. 140. 
Gallus ferrugineus: Gyldenstolpe I p. 67; Gyldenstolpe Il; Gyldenstolpe I p. 235; Barton p. 108; Gairdner 
p. 40; Miller p. 432; Gairdner p. 151. 
Gallus bankiva: Robinson & Kloss p. 672. 
1 f Hat Sanuk; 1 g, 2 Q Koon Tan; 3 Q Pak Koh; 1 9 Koh Lak. 
