TAB. LXVITI. 
PHASIANUS STACHEII. 
Phas. stramineo-albus, supra frequenter, subtus parce nigro fasciatus, dorso abdomineque nis 
rufescentibus ; capite cristato fusco ; cauda fasciis latis nigris, ad basin interne rufis, ornata. 
Longitudo corporis ab apice rostri ad apicem caude, 3 ped. 4¢ unc. 
Tuts fine species, named in honour of Major Stacey, to whose researches in India we owe the discovery of it, 
although pessessing many characters in common with the typical Pheasants, differs considerably from them in 
several particulars ; its legs being shorter and thicker, and its head possessing a crest of which the true 
Pheasant is destitute. The Phaseanus Stacew is, mdeed, one of those very interesting birds which, deviating 
from the typical characters of neighbouring genera, serve at the same time as a connecting link between 
them; its long tail and general contour allying it to Phasianus, while its robust tarsus and its crested head 
show an approaching affinity to Lophophorus and Euplocamus. In the Himalaya, though a country abounding 
in this tribe of birds, the present species appears to be rare; few specimens having been observed in the 
numerous collections that have lately been received from those parts. The female has not, as far as we are 
aware, been sent to Europe, nor has any account of its habits and manners been hitherto transmitted to us. 
The naked skin round the eye is bright scarlet ; the feathers of the crest and the remainder of the head 
and neck are dull cinereous passing into tawny yellow, every feather, except on the cheeks and throat, being 
barred with black ; the quill-feathers are marked with zigzag lines and are tipped with black ; the rump is 
rich red brown, each feather having two spots of black near the tip; the tail is pale tawny, barred at regular 
distances with a narrow and a broad band of deep blackish brown ; the under surface is pale tawny, barred 
as the back; the bill and tarsi brown. 
The figure is half the natural size. 
