THE LINEATED SILVER PHEASANT. 
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the inner webs. Younger males have more white streaks on the lower 
plumage_, these extending to the whole breast and abdomen. 
The female has the forehead, crown and crest olive-brown tinged with 
rufous ; chin and throat grey ; sides and back of the neck olive-brown 
streaked with white ; front of the neck pale chestnut with white streaks ; 
the remaining lower plumage rich chestnut streaked with white ; base of 
the hind neck and the back olive-brown, with white arrowhead- shaped 
marks ; wings, coverts, lower back, rump and the shorter upper tail- 
coverts olive-brown, the feathers edged paler ; the longer upper tail-coverts 
yellowish white barred with black; the six outer pairs of tail-feathers 
blackish, broadly barred with white, each of these white bars having 
another black bar within it, and between the white bars marks of chestnut ; 
the next pair similar, but the terminal half of the inner web yellowish 
vermiculated with black ; central pair wholly yellowish white on the inner 
web, and the outer web vermiculated with black. 
The chickens have the crown of the head fulvous, albescent on the fore- 
head ; there is a stripe from the base of the upper mandible to the eye, 
also a black line from the posterior corner of the eye passing under the 
ear- coverts and terminating at the back of the head ; the whole lower sur- 
face is white with a tinge of fulvous ; upper neck, back and rump black ; 
two conspicuous fulvous-white lines run from the shoulder to the root of 
the tail along the sides of the body, one on either side ; quills brown, much 
freckled with fulvous, and the greater coverts largely tipped with white. 
Male : iris reddish hazel; bill green, turning to dusky at the tip and at 
the base of the culmen ; bare skin of the head rich crimson ; legs plum- 
beous brown ; claws pale horn ; spur dark brown. 
Female : legs dusky fleshy ; claws pinkish horn ; bill pale greenish, the 
base of the culmen blackish ; eyelids plumbeous ; irides bright reddish 
brown. 
Male : length 27 inches, wing 9*3, tail 12*5, tarsus 3-2, bill from gape 
1-35. Female: length 20 inches, wing 8'5, tail 7'5, tarsus 3, bill from 
gape 1*3. 
The Lineated Silver Pheasant occurs throughout Pegu and Tenasserim 
as far south as Tavoy. On the eastern slopes of the Arrakan hills, which 
are properly in Pegu, the next species occurs ; but I am not sure whether 
the two may not be found together in this locality. Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay procured it on the Tonghoo hills, east of the town of Tonghoo. 
Eastwards it extends into Siam, and northwards up the Irrawaddy 
valley into Independent Burmah as far as Bhamo, but how much further 
north is not known. 
This Pheasant occurs abundantly wherever the ground is hilly or 
broken, and it is most numerous on the higher and wilder parts of 
the hills. It keeps to dense cover, seldom showing itself, runs with 
