DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BULLFINCH* 



263 



Man. Phil. Bds., I, p. 245 ; Dresser, Pal. Bds., II, p. 554; Uchida, Annot. 

 Zool. Japon., 191 2, p. 152. 



An adult male obtained at Tamsui, Toihoku Distr., May 22. 



Family PHASIANID/E. 



24. dulopha&is mikado Ogilvie-Grant. 

 Mikado-kiji, Futufutu. 



Grant, Bull. B. O. C, XVI, 19:16, p. 277; Grant & La Touche, Ibis, 1907, 

 p. 277; Grant, op. cit., 19:18, pp. 6o6-5o8, Pl. XIII. (£■ & text-fig. 7 ; 

 Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 191 2, p. 155; Grant, Ibis, 191 2, pp. 654-657 ; 

 Phasianus uiikaio (Grant), Rothschild, Bull. B.O.C., XXI, 1907, p. 22. 



I have had the good fortune of collecting four specimens of this rare 

 pheasant, with the aid of district officials and of native boys, on an altitude of 

 about 8000 ft. avove sea-level, on Mt. Arisan, Kagi Distr. The specimens 

 obtained are : 1^ ad., May 10; 1^ ad., May, 11; 2^s ad., May 13. 



The two males are very closely alike in colours of plumage, except the 

 fact that, while in one of them the white bars on tail-feathers stand out from 

 the quill quite or nearly opposite both ways on the two webs, in the other 

 specimen the same bars stand alternately, — a variation which is also 

 observable in Phasiànus scemmerringi Temm. The gloss on the mantle is 

 not so strongly reddish purple as is represented in Ogilvie-Grant's figure 

 (Ibis, 1508, Pl. XIII). Nor is the head of so pale in colour. Tertiariesand 

 scapulars have no distinct white margin. 



The females are both less reddish brown than in Grant's figure, but not 

 to the same degree in the two specimens, one of these being, on the whole 

 somewhat darker than the other. It seems the plumage colour is much 

 more variable in the female than in the male. 



My notes on the colour of soft parts in the four specimens run as 

 follows : 



^ ad. Upper mandible horny black ; lower mandible olivaceous horn 

 colour; feet, toes and claws dark grey ; spurs greyish horn colour ; iris red- 



