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orange colour, with dark blue bars across the tips. These latter form, 

 when the feathers are in position, a series of horizontal lines across the 

 tippat. " Below this tippet on the lower part of the neck the feathers 

 are deep green margined with velvet black ; below this again are the 

 scapular feathers of a dark crimson ; the back and rump are golden 

 yellow ; the tail itself is very long ; the two longest central feathers 

 are covered with small irregular circles of light brown on a dark 

 ground, giving them a mottled appearance ; the other feathers = are barred 

 diagonally with dark brown on a lighter ground. On each side of the 

 base of the tail extend the long narrow upper tail coverts of a bright 

 orange crimson. The wings when closed show the deep blue tertiaries 

 covering the chestnut secondary quills. The upper part of the throat 

 is light brown; the breast and under parts orange scarlet." — Tegetmeier. 

 The hens are plain-looking birds, barred with alternate shades of 

 light and dark brown. 



(360) AMHEEST'S PHEASANT. 



(THAUMALEA AMHERSTLE— {Leadb.) ) 



Description. — Forehead green; the long plumes of the crest crim- 

 son ; tippet white, each feather being margined with a dark green band, 

 with a second narrow band at some distance from the tip ; the front of 

 the neck, the breast, shoulders, back and wing coverts, metallic green, 

 each feather being tipped with velvety black ; the lower breast and 

 belly white ; the thighs and under tail coverts mottled dark brown and 

 white; the tail coverts are brown at the base, striped green and white 

 in the middle, and bright red at the end; the two middle tail feathers 

 are marked with transverse bands of green; the bill pale greenish; the 

 naked skin of the face light blue. 



Hybrids between this and the preceding species have also been 

 exhibited. 



Eab.— China. 



Length of life in captivity. 

 Six years. 



(361) THE SIAMESE PHEASANT. 



(EUPLOCAMUS PE^ELATUS— {Bonap.) ) 

 The general colour of the plumage bluish ashy or bluish grey of a 

 peculiar shade ; the feathers of the rump black with crimson margins. 

 Hub.— Siam and Cochin China. 



(362) SWINHOE'S PHEASANT. 



(EUPLOCAMUS SWINHOII— Gould.) 

 The prevailing colour of the plumage is black, with bluish margins 

 to feathers; longitudinal blue marking at the sides of the neck and 

 upper breast ; an elongated patch of white on the hind neck and the 



