170 The Lineated Pheasant of Burmah. 



impression of interruptions ; 11, the meteor could be followed 

 by the eye, but it left no streak. 



Figs. 2, 4, refracted and reflected images, viewed together 

 (A refracted, B reflected), of Polaris (a) ; and of two meteors. 



Figs. 5, 6, 13, 15, 16^ 17, diffuse train-spectra. 



Figs. 9, 12, ditto containing the sodium line. 



Figs. 7, 8, 11, 14, purely mono-chromatic, or sodium 

 meteor spectra ; similar to Nos. 2, 4, but better defined. 



Fig. 12, his., represents the appearance of No. 12, two 

 seconds after the disappearance of the meteor. Total duration 

 of the streak, four seconds. 



Note. — The distortion or curvature of the streak by the 

 prisms, was plainly seen in No. 7, but not in the remaining 

 spectra. The meteor spectroscope was generally held nearly 

 horizontally; but in No. 12 the instrument was held almost 

 vertically, and the meteor moved in a nearly horizontal 

 direction. The effect of producing the prismatic spectrum was 

 the same as in the other cases. 



THE LINEATED PHEASANT OF BUEMAH. 



BY CAPTAIN R. C. BEAVAN. 



Synonyms. Gallophasis lineatus, Auct. Jerdon's Birds of 

 India, vol. ii., part 2, pp. 531 and 535. FJuplocoynus lineatus, 

 Belanger, who has figured it in his voyage, plate 8 of Birds. 

 Phasianus lineatus, Latham. Phasianus reynandii. Lesson. 

 Genus, Grammato'ptilus, of Keichenbach. Mason's Burmah, 

 edit. I860, pp. 230 and 687. Burmese name "Yeet" or "Yit." 



Dr. Jerdon, in his famous work, the Birds of India, describes 

 the group of the Kallege Pheasants, amongst which he includes 

 the species under review, as one which leads from the true 

 pheasants (of which Phasianus colchicus, Linn., the Common 

 Pheasant of the British Islands, is a type) to the Firebacked 

 Pheasants and Jungle Fowl of India and Malayana; and as 

 the group in question partakes of the characters of both the 

 true pheasants and the jungle fowl, so in its geographical 

 distribution it is found to range from the Himalayas, the head 

 quarters of the pheasants, to the Burmese provinces, where 

 jungle fowl and their allies tako their place. 



The genus Gallophasis, of Hodgson, or that of the Kallege 

 Pheasants, as they are more popularly termed, embraces at 

 least four species — two from the Himalayas — a third from 

 Assam and Arracan, and the fourth, our species, from the 



