202 THE ARACAN SILVER PHEASANT. 



the hilly southern portions of Chittagong and into the western 

 portions of Independent Burma. 



It may be useful to specify clearly how this species does 

 partake of the characters of the other two. 



In the males the entire lower surface is streakless, as in the 

 Eastern or Black-breasted Kalij ; there are no white central 

 stripes to any of the feathers, some of the lateral tail-feathers 

 have nearly lost the white markings. The tips of the neck 

 feathers show glossy blue black patches, similar to those in* 

 the Eastern Kalij, though the rest of the feathers are freckled, 

 as in the Vermicellated Pheasant. Everywhere on the upper 

 surface the white frecklings are coarser and further apart than 

 in this latter, and all the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 covert feathers, though freckled as in it, are fringed at the tips 

 with white, as in the Kalij. In the female the white stripes 

 on the lower surface are greatly reduced in breadth, are buffy 

 in colour, and are almost entirely confined to the breast. The 

 white arrow-head markings of the back and sides of the neck 

 and upper back of the female Vermicellated Pheasant are entirely 

 wanting. Many of the coverts and the longer scapulars exhibit 

 the conspicuous crescentic white tippings characteristic of 

 the Kalij. In other respects, however, the female agrees with 

 that of neither species. The whole back and wings are a more 

 or less rich, rufous-olivaceous brown, everywhere closely 

 freckled with blackish brown. The tail is rufous, pale on the 

 central tail-feathers, deep chestnut on the four exterior pairs, 

 the others intermediate ; the chestnut feathers freckled on the 

 inner webs only ; the others on both webs, with blackish brown. 



I HAVE vainly endeavoured to obtain any information as to 

 the haunts or habits of this species. 



A certain place has been said to be paved with good inten- 

 tions, but the broken promises of specimens and information 

 for this work, on the strength of which it was mainly under- 

 taken, must, I should think, have contributed appreciably to 

 that pavement. 



I HAVE no measurements, and the only specimens I own, I 

 have never seen, as these were sent home to be figured by 

 Dr. Anderson, who, with the permission of our Zoological 

 Society here, most kindly presented them to me for this work. 



THE Plate has not yet arrived, though I hope it may in 

 time to appear in this volume. 



