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Euplocamus crawfurdi, J. E. Gray. 



Vernacular Names.— [Yit, upper Burma 



HIS bird is very closely allied to the well-known 

 E. lineatus, the Vermicellated Pheasant. 



The characteristic points in which typical craw- 

 furdi differs from lineatus, are, first, the much coarser 

 and bolder character of the markings of the upper 

 surface, which are all longitudinal, more or less 

 parallel to the margins of the feathers, which are 

 entirely free from the fine, more or less transverse ; markings or 

 mottling characteristic of lineatus ; second, in the whole of the 

 central tail-feathers, except just the tip and the margins of the 

 inner webs, being boldly variegated black and white, instead of, 

 as in lineatus, almost the whole of the inner webs and the ter- 

 minal half, at any rate, of the outer webs being white or sullied 

 white, free from markings, and such markings as exist on the 

 basal portions being fine. 



I do not attach any importance to the supposed less amount 

 of white striation on the under surface of crawfurdi, because I 

 have specimens of lineatus in which every single feather of the 

 breast, abdomen, and sides has a more or less broad white shaft 

 stripe, and others again in which only two or three feathers on 

 the extreme sides of the breast show any traces of this. 



Very little is known of this species ; we procured a single 

 specimen at Dargwin, in the hills at the north-east extremity of 

 Tenasserim proper, immediately south of which it is replaced by 

 E. lineatus. It was procured by Dr. Anderson on the confines 

 of Upper Burma and Yunan. How far it extends eastwards, 

 into Karenee, the Shan States, and the north of Siam and 

 China, is unknown. 



IN ITS HABITS it probably differs in no respect from the 

 Vermicellated Pheasant, and is, we may conclude, a bird of the 

 hill forests, descending into broken and wooded country 

 immediately at their bases. 



