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rump of mearsz, and, in addition, the scarlet legs and feet of uzsbett:. The 
central tail-feathers were sparingly but strongly vermiculated with white for 
most of their length, the terminal fifth being clear black. 
2. ADULT FEMALE.—This bird, which was constantly associated with the above cock (in 
fact, I secured both with one shot), was not distinguishable from females of 
horsfield, except for the somewhat longer tail. Well grown as were the two 
young birds, I saw this female more than once allow them to take food away 
from her, and from this and other actions, besides the constant association of 
the four birds before they joined the others for the afternoon’s descent to water, 
there is not the slightest doubt that this was a single family of kaleege. 
3. Frrst YEAR Mare.—Typical Aorsfeldi as found in Manipur, with tail of normal 
length, but with the basal vermiculation on the inner rectrices visible for a half- 
inch beyond the upper tail-coverts. 
4. First YEAR Mare.—Between odscurus and davisonz, with characters of each 
form. 
The two following birds I judged to be parent and offspring :— 
5. ADULT MALE.—Superficially close to “nxeatus, with somewhat coarser vermiculations, 
and with the outer webs of the outer tail-feathers almost unmarked black, as in 
andersout. The central tail-feathers were vermiculated throughout, with no 
hint of a pure white area. There was no trace of a rump fringe. 
6. First YEAR MaLe.—This bird does not correspond to the description of the females 
of any form. The general colour above is olive brown, very minutely vermicu- 
lated with black, except along the margins of the feathers, where, the black dying 
out, the pure olive brown shows paler and clearer. The primaries are brownish 
black, densely mottled with greyish-brown on the outer webs. The secondaries 
are similar, with the colour of the outer webs changing into that of the coverts 
and remainder of the upper plumage. 
The chin and throat are white, tinged with brown along the margins. On the 
under parts the light colour persists as a well-defined buffy shaft-stripe. The 
rest of the feather is clear olive-brown, with but little mottling except on the 
centre of the lower breast and abdomen, where the entire feather is irregularly 
blackened especially along the enlarged shaft-stripe. The under tail-coverts 
are the blackest of all the contour feathers, most of them showing brown only 
along the margin. The outer and median tail-feathers are chestnut, obscurely 
but coarsely mottled with black. Toward the central pairs the chestnut changes 
to a brown, and the darker colour becomes a coarse vermiculation, the lines 
irregular and lying obliquely to the shaft. 
The facial skin was scarlet ; the irides light hazel; legs and feet pale, neutral, leaden 
grey. 
I have gone into this in detail to show what variation I found among the females of 
this group of pheasants. 
7. ApuLT MaLe.—One of the solitary males was Aorsfe/d: in length of tail and general 
markings, except that there was more vermiculation on the central tail-feathers 
than I have seen in any bird from Assam, and the inner wing-coverts were 
strongly margined. 
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