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  buffy 
  shaft-streaks. 
  Lower 
  back 
  and 
  rump 
  sandy 
  rufous 
  on 
  the 
  visible 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   feathers, 
  finely 
  vermiculated 
  with 
  black, 
  with 
  a 
  wide, 
  wedge-shaped, 
  black 
  shaft-streak. 
  

  

  Primaries 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  male. 
  Secondaries 
  with 
  pale 
  buff 
  instead 
  of 
  chestnut 
  

   markings. 
  Upper 
  tail-coverts 
  much 
  like 
  the 
  rump. 
  Central 
  tail-feathers 
  rufous 
  

   centrally, 
  with 
  margin 
  and 
  indistinct 
  cross-bars 
  of 
  grey, 
  all 
  mottled 
  with 
  brown 
  and 
  

   black. 
  Lateral 
  rectrices 
  solid 
  chestnut, 
  with 
  two 
  oblique 
  bars, 
  a 
  sub-terminal 
  one 
  

   of 
  black 
  and 
  a 
  wide 
  terminal 
  band 
  of 
  white, 
  the 
  latter 
  extending 
  for 
  some 
  distance 
  down 
  

   the 
  outer 
  margin. 
  The 
  visible 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  under 
  tail-coverts 
  pure 
  white. 
  Tail- 
  

   feathers 
  eighteen 
  in 
  number, 
  very 
  short 
  in 
  comparison 
  with 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  males, 
  the 
  

   inner 
  only 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  outer 
  pair. 
  

  

  Chin 
  and 
  throat 
  creamy 
  white, 
  the 
  feathers 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  face 
  and 
  side 
  throat 
  

   tipped 
  with 
  black. 
  Breast 
  pale 
  rufous 
  buff, 
  tipped 
  with 
  greyish 
  and 
  irregularly 
  marked 
  

   and 
  spotted 
  with 
  black. 
  Posteriorly 
  the 
  ground 
  colour 
  becomes 
  chestnut 
  and 
  a 
  wide 
  

   white 
  terminal 
  area 
  appears. 
  

  

  Facial 
  area 
  quite 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  short 
  buff 
  and 
  black 
  featherlets, 
  the 
  skin 
  

   showing 
  reddish 
  beneath. 
  A 
  sub-ocular 
  patch 
  white. 
  Upper 
  mandible 
  chiefly 
  dark 
  

   horn, 
  paler 
  toward 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  lower 
  mandible 
  yellowish 
  horn. 
  Iris 
  dark 
  hazel 
  brown. 
  

   Legs 
  yellowish 
  horn, 
  toes 
  darker. 
  Spur 
  a 
  low 
  but 
  sharp 
  scalule. 
  

  

  Bill 
  from 
  nostril, 
  15 
  mm.; 
  length, 
  620; 
  wing, 
  210; 
  tail, 
  200; 
  tarsus, 
  62; 
  middle 
  

   toe 
  and 
  claw, 
  59. 
  

  

  Chick 
  in 
  Down. 
  — 
  Centre 
  of 
  crown 
  and 
  nape 
  chestnut, 
  becoming 
  darker 
  on 
  the 
  

   hind 
  neck, 
  but 
  reverting 
  to 
  uniform 
  chestnut 
  on 
  the 
  wing-coverts 
  and 
  remaining 
  

   upper 
  parts. 
  A 
  short 
  buffy-white 
  line 
  runs 
  down 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  back 
  and 
  rump. 
  

   Forehead, 
  lores 
  and 
  broad 
  band 
  extending 
  over 
  the 
  eye 
  and 
  down 
  the 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  nape, 
  

   rich 
  creamy 
  buff. 
  A 
  line 
  of 
  dark 
  chocolate 
  arises 
  on 
  the 
  side 
  neck 
  and 
  extends 
  upward 
  

   and 
  forward 
  across 
  the 
  ear-coverts 
  and 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  posterior 
  corner 
  of 
  the 
  eye. 
  It 
  

   appears 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  eye 
  as 
  a 
  narrow 
  margin 
  to 
  the 
  eyelid. 
  Face 
  and 
  

   under 
  parts 
  pale 
  creamy-white, 
  the 
  breast 
  tinged 
  with 
  pale 
  russet. 
  Tips 
  of 
  the 
  newly 
  

   sprouted 
  flight-feathers 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  indistinctly 
  mottled 
  with 
  black, 
  with 
  dull 
  

   buff 
  tips. 
  Greater 
  coverts 
  with 
  this 
  terminal 
  band, 
  paler 
  and 
  very 
  conspicuous. 
  

   A 
  three-day-old 
  chick 
  has 
  hazel 
  irides, 
  yellow-brown 
  beak 
  and 
  legs. 
  Culmen 
  from 
  

   nostril, 
  5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  length, 
  no 
  ; 
  wing, 
  40; 
  tarsus, 
  22 
  ; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw, 
  22. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  soemmerringi 
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  PI. 
  Col., 
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  pis. 
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  9 
  [nos. 
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  488] 
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  183 
  1, 
  

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  496; 
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  Nat. 
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  IV. 
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  p. 
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  pi. 
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  pt. 
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  1844, 
  p. 
  24; 
  id. 
  Gen. 
  B., 
  

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  1845, 
  p. 
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  Jap., 
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  225, 
  pi. 
  2 
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  and 
  

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  pi. 
  2 
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  p. 
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  VII. 
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  pi. 
  37; 
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  xii 
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   1882, 
  p. 
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  in 
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  38, 
  58 
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  soemmeringii 
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