88 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 
GENERAL ACCOUNT 
After finding and studying the Himalayan kaleege, I later visited Burma, and there 
in the south first met with /eatus. My next studies took me to Mandalay, eastward 
beyond Maymyo, and northward toward the Ruby Mines District and Bhamo. I then 
spent considerable time in the Myitkyina District far up the Irrawaddy, and among the 
Shan Mountains to the east and south, to beyond the Yunnan border. Here, thanks to 
the exact details given me by Major Nisbett, I was able to collect and observe the birds 
at the very localities where the types were collected. 
From this latter very limited locality six forms of Gewuaeus had been recorded. Of 
these I found no perfectly typical specimens, but pheasants which approximated four, 
besides a fifth which was not supposed to occur here. In addition I collected birds 
which, if judged by the characters used in separating the already named forms, would 
supply at least four additional species. 
The species supposed to inhabit this region are the following :— 
1. affinis. (1 3 from the River Namli; two thousand feet; east of Myitkyina.) 
2. granti. (1 $ from Puntum; six thousand feet; eight miles east of Sadon.) 
3. nisbetté:, (An imperfect ¢ from Mt. Kachin ; twenty-five hundred feet ; five miles east 
of Sadon.) 
4. cliffordt. (The district in general.) 
. batemant. (The district in general.) 
. horsfieldi. (The district in general.) 
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At the locality from which afzuzs is recorded, the lower River Namli, I found only 
horsfieldi, which was dominant and almost typical, and a vermiculated bird associated 
with it which closely resembles the description of odscurus, but differed from it as 
much as do the most nearly related named species. The two forms were living in close 
association, the first flock containing three birds, all males, two of which were Lorsfielad. 
In fact this was about the numerical percentage of the latter in this vicinity. On two 
occasions I saw a distinctly lighter bird in company with orsfieldi, but I failed to secure 
it. My next stop was at Pungatong, some twenty miles farther east, at an elevation of 
about four thousand feet. Here I located a flock of eleven kaleege, or what were probably 
two families of four and five respectively, and two single cock birds. Each afternoon 
these would unite and take the same route to water, down a gently sloping hillside 
covered with light forest, across the trail and on down to the stream at the bottom of a 
rather steep ravine. I watched these birds carefully day after day until I could actually 
recognize the individuals, in spite of the fact that they were usually well looked after by 
a mob of laughing thrushes. Then I began shooting, and secured no fewer than eight 
birds out of the eleven. This comprised all of one family of two parents and two almost 
full-grown young males in first year plumage, the adult male parent of the second family 
with a young female of the year, and both of the solitary cock birds—fully adult. The 
tale of individuals was as follows, using Oates’ nomenclature. 
Family Number One :— 
1. ApuLT Marz.—On the whole, this bird resembled Zorsfeld, but it had the narrow 
rump fringe and lengthened tail of datemanz, the intense blue, non-vermiculated 
