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Silver Pheasants belonging to this species were rather common in fche dense ever- 

 green jungles which cover tlie hills deviding Tenasserim and Siarn. Especially ;if t lic 

 neighbourhood of Hat Sanuk (Lat. N. 12°) they were exceedinulv abimdanl though 

 sliy and diffieult to obtain, bccause of their habits of running away among the dense under- 

 growth instead of taking to the wings. I most of ten met with them in the evergreen 

 jungles 011 the lower hills, but sonietimes I also found them in the low-lying country a 

 tew miles from the coast. Here the vegetation chiefly consisted of bamboos. 



Quite recently Mr. Stuart Baker has publisheda »Revision of the Genus Gennceus» 

 (Bombay. Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. 2.3, p. 658 — 689, 1915) and in this highly interesting 

 and valuable paper lie has exhaustively disgusscd the characters and the geographieal 

 distribution of the different forms of Silver Pheasants. 



Two maps accompany this paper and on them Gennceus lineatus Vig. is stated to 

 occur in the Pegu Yomas and in Tenasserim to a little south of Moulmein. Kast of this 

 area the allied Gennceus sharpei Oates is said to occur, and this species has also been 

 found in Northwestern Siarn. On one of these maps a small area of land south of the 

 distributional area of Gennceus lineatus and as far as the coast of the Bay of Bengal is 

 marked as being inhabited by G. sharpei. This seems a little doubtful to me and is pro- 

 bably a mistake because I found quite typical specimens of Gennceus lineatus in the 

 country situated further south. 



The discovery of a Silver Pheasant as far south as about Lat. N. 12° is a most 

 remarkable fact and it adds a considerable distance to the southern extension of the 

 family. 



Mr. Robinson has not recorded any Silver Pheasants from the Siamese Province 

 of Bandon, but Gairdner found them rather common in the Ratburi and Petchaburi 

 Districts of Siarn between Lat. N. 12° 40' and 14 10'. 



[I also takc the opportunity of correcting a mistake in Stuart Baker's paper. 

 He there says in his description of the adult male of Gennceus lineatus (p. 676) that 

 »the outer webs of the central rectrices are more or less white». It of course ought to 

 be the inner webs of the central rectrices.] 



During my stay in Northwestern Siarn I once caught a glimpse of a Silver Pheas- 

 ant when I was climbing up one of the steep hills at Doi Par Sakeng. As far as I could 

 make out,it looked much more white than a specimen of G. lineatus and was probably a 

 specimen of G. nycihemerus ripponi Sharpe which inhabits the Southern Shan States and 

 the adjoining country. Unfortunately I did not obtain a specimen from Upper Siarn 

 so it is still unknown which species inhabits the most northern parts of the country. 



350. Gallus gallus. Linn. — The Red Jungle Fowl. 



Gallus gallus: Grant p. 122; Robinson III p. 721; Bonhote p. 78; Robinson I p. 87; Robinson II p. 140. 

 Gdllus ferrugineus: Gyldenstolpe I p. 67; Gyldenstolpe II: Gyldenstolpe III p. 235; Barton p. 108: Gairdner 



p. 40: Muller p. 432; Gairdner p. 151. 

 Gallus banläva: Robinson & Kloss p. (372. 



1 ^ Hat Sanuk: 1 J\ 2 $ Koon Tan: 3 $ Pak Koh; 1 ? Koh Lak. 



