204 CRAWFURD'S SILVER PHEASANT. 



We MEASURED one single specimen in the flesh : — 



Male. — Length, 30*0 ; expanse, 3275 ; tail from vent, 13*5 ; 



wing, n*5 ; tarsus, 3*62 ; bill from gape, 1*55. Weight, 275 lbs. 

 The legs and feet were dark pinkish fleshy ; the bill pale 



bluish horny ; the facial skin deep crimson ; the irides brown. 



The Plate. — Bill and feet utterly miscoloured, though the very 

 note just given was attached to the specimen sent to the artist. 

 In other respects the plate does indicate to a certain extent the 

 difference between the coarse bold markings of this present 

 species and the excessively fine vermicellations of the next. 



Our Plate is labelled E. andersoni ; I consider, with Dr. 

 Sclater, that it should take Mr. Gray's name, founded on one of 

 Crawfurd's drawings. But many consider this identification 

 doubtful, and if it be not accepted, the species will stand as 

 labelled on the plate. 



