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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



OUR FIRST PEAHEN, 

 ford in southern Ceylon : elephant and sambar deer country 



splendens}, hybrid Junglefowl, (Gallus varius 

 - G. gallus; and G. lafayctiei -\- G. gallus), 

 Javan Junglefowl, (Gallus varius), Bornean 

 Fireback Pheasant, (Lophura nobilis), Bornean 

 Crestless Fireback, (Aco- . 

 mus pyronotus), Crested 

 Wood Partridge, (Rollulus 

 roulroul) and Nicobar Pig- 

 eon, (Caloenas nicobarica). 



Within the limits of this 

 article I can present only a 

 resume of the work of the 

 expedition. Before we left 

 New York we decided ten- 

 tatively to include in the 

 monographic work, twenty- 

 two genera of birds. Suc- 

 cess attended our efforts to 

 such an extent that we were 

 able to find and study every 

 one of these groups. In the 

 present article I shall deal 

 only with our discovery of 

 these two and twenty genera. 



Mrs. Beebe and the writer 

 left New York for London 



on December 26, 1909, and 

 were joined at Port Said by 

 the artist Mr. Horsfall, who 

 remained with the expedi- 

 tion for the ensuing six 

 months. 



The first field work of the 

 expedition was undertaken 

 in Ceylon, where six weeks 

 were spent. At Colombo we 

 were most hospitably enter- 

 tained by Dr. Willey, well 

 known in American scientific 

 circles. He aided our search 

 in every way and is respon- 

 sible for much of our suc- 

 cess in this island. From 

 Colombo we made two trips, 

 one to -Randy and the cen- 

 tral mountainous portion of 

 the island, and the second 

 to the Yala Game Sanctu- 

 aries on the extreme southern coast. 



The Peafowl, (Pavo). Ceylon Junglefowl, 

 (Gallus) and Spurfowl, (GaUiperdix) were 

 thoroughly studied by means of series of skins, 



HAUNT OF THE BLOOD AND IMPEYAN PHEASANTS. 

 Treeless zone of the eastern Himalayas, looking toward Kinchinjunga. 



