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  A 
  MONOGRAPH 
  OF 
  THE 
  PHEASANTS 
  

  

  The 
  juvenile 
  lesser 
  coverts 
  are 
  dull 
  mottled 
  rufous 
  and 
  black, 
  the 
  median 
  ones 
  

   with 
  white 
  tips. 
  These 
  median 
  coverts 
  are 
  chiefly 
  a 
  mottled 
  rufous 
  with 
  two 
  con- 
  

   spicuous, 
  lateral, 
  sub-terminal 
  black 
  ocelli, 
  which 
  become 
  a 
  bar 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  secondaries. 
  

  

  The 
  forerunners 
  of 
  the 
  white, 
  greater 
  covert 
  bar 
  are 
  mottled. 
  grey, 
  buff 
  and 
  dark 
  

   brown, 
  whitening 
  toward 
  the 
  tip. 
  The 
  secondaries 
  are 
  black, 
  with 
  deep 
  triangular 
  teeth 
  

   or 
  broken 
  barring 
  of 
  mottled 
  rufous 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  web. 
  The 
  primaries 
  are 
  heavily 
  

   barred 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  web 
  with 
  buffy 
  rufous. 
  

  

  The 
  juvenile 
  mid-back 
  feathers 
  are 
  mottled 
  chestnut 
  with 
  an 
  irregular, 
  black, 
  

   central 
  shaft-spot. 
  On 
  the 
  rump 
  the 
  feathers 
  are 
  a 
  coarsely 
  mottled 
  grey, 
  and 
  the 
  black 
  

   area 
  has 
  enlarged. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface, 
  the 
  pectoral 
  steel 
  blue 
  extends 
  far 
  down 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  

   lower 
  breast, 
  dying 
  out 
  as 
  central 
  ocelli, 
  like 
  those 
  which 
  are 
  so 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  steel-blue 
  neck 
  plumage. 
  The 
  mid-line 
  of 
  the 
  belly 
  is 
  much 
  mottled 
  with 
  

   black. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  little 
  or 
  no 
  chestnut 
  on 
  the 
  rectrices. 
  Beak 
  from 
  nostril, 
  16; 
  wing, 
  210; 
  

   tail 
  (full-grown 
  juvenile), 
  223 
  ; 
  tarsus, 
  63 
  ; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw, 
  50 
  ; 
  spur, 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Gallophasis 
  humiae 
  Hume, 
  Stray 
  Feathers, 
  IX. 
  1880, 
  p. 
  461 
  [So. 
  Manipur] 
  ; 
  Hume, 
  Ibis, 
  1881, 
  p. 
  608; 
  

   Godwin-Austen, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1882, 
  p. 
  715 
  [N.E. 
  Manipur]; 
  Hume, 
  Stray 
  Feathers, 
  XI. 
  1888, 
  p. 
  302; 
  Grant, 
  

   Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  II. 
  1897, 
  P- 
  4 
  2 
  > 
  Oates, 
  Ibis, 
  1898, 
  pp. 
  124, 
  125 
  ; 
  Finn, 
  Ibis, 
  1898, 
  pp. 
  311, 
  312 
  ; 
  Sharpe, 
  

   Hand-list 
  Birds, 
  I. 
  1899, 
  p. 
  38. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  humiae 
  Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Game-birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXII. 
  1893, 
  p. 
  335 
  ; 
  Finn, 
  Ibis, 
  1898, 
  p. 
  311 
  ; 
  Blanford, 
  

   Fauna 
  Brit. 
  India, 
  Birds, 
  IV. 
  1898, 
  p. 
  80 
  [partim] 
  ; 
  Finn, 
  Jour. 
  Asiatic 
  Soc. 
  Bengal, 
  LXIX. 
  1900, 
  p. 
  144 
  [Chin 
  

   Hills, 
  Burma]; 
  Bingham, 
  Jour. 
  Asiatic 
  Soc. 
  Bengal, 
  LXIX. 
  1900, 
  p. 
  137; 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XXI. 
  

   1907, 
  pp. 
  23, 
  24 
  ; 
  Finn, 
  Game-birds 
  India 
  and 
  Asia, 
  191 
  1, 
  p. 
  54 
  [partim]. 
  

  

  Syrmaticus 
  humiae 
  Beebe, 
  Zoologica, 
  I. 
  No. 
  15, 
  1914, 
  p. 
  283. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  humiae 
  humiae 
  Baker, 
  Jour. 
  Bombay 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Soc, 
  XXV. 
  1918, 
  p. 
  348. 
  

  

  