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Dr. Scully's description of a chick of this species is interest- 

 ing :— 



" Young. — A chick captured on the 10th of June, whose wing 

 measured only two inches, had the feet orange and the bill 

 greenish yellow horny ; the head was rufous brown ; the body 

 above dark brown ; each feather of the wing-coverts and scapu- 

 lars having a blackish subterminal bar, and a fulvous tip ; beneath 

 sullied fulvous. Young birds of both sexes about three months 

 old resemble the female, but have the bill livid at tip, the orbital 

 skin pale fleshy red, and the feet livid brownish. At this stage 

 the black subterminal bars on the upper feathers are still well 

 marked. The young male assumes the black plumage when 

 about five months old (such, at least, was the case in two speci- 

 mens I had in confinement) ; but at this age it still shows traces 

 of the original brown colour about the feathers of the neck 

 and upper back, and in this state it probably represents Latham's 

 "Nepal Pheasant" (" Ind. Orn.," IL, 632.) 



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