ANDERSON^S SILVER PHEASANT. 
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hoop. Northwards it seems to extend to Chittagong for Mr. Sanderson 
writes that he is of the opinion that he saw this Pheasant in that Province. 
I observed this Pheasant only two or three times, and I had no oppor- 
tunity of watching its habits ; it is, however, extremely unlikely that they 
differ in any respect from those of the preceding species. 
676. EUPLOCAMUS ANDERSONI. 
ANDERSON^S SILVER PHEASANT. 
Euplocamus andersoni, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 137 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. 
p. 670, pi. liii. ; Elliot, Man. Fhas. ii. pi. 22. Euplocamus crawfurdi, Hume 
8r Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 437, 521 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 110 ; Hume 8f Marsh. Game 
Birds, i. p. 203, pi. 
Description. — Male. Upper parts black, each feather having three or 
more white irregular lines running parallel to, and meeting towards, the 
edges ; secondaries black, with broken irregular white lines running length- 
wise with the feather ; feathers of the rump like the back, but fringed with 
white, which overlaps the feather beneath and gives this part a beautiful 
silvery appearance ; top of head, lengthened crest, and entire underparts 
very deep rich blue ; tail moderately long, middle feather white, thickly 
covered with rather broad irregular black lines, these most numerous on 
the outer web and towards the base, becoming less on inner web, and disap- 
pearing entirely at the tip and on the edge of inner web ; rest of tail- 
feathers black, with fine broken lines of white, these disappearing towards 
the tips; primaries dark brown, irregularly marked with white lines. 
{Elliot.) 
The female does not appear to have been described. 
The characteristic points in which typical E. crawfurdi differs from E. 
lineatus are, first, the much coarser and bolder character of the markings 
of the upper surface, which are all longitudinal, more or less parallel to 
the margins of the feathers, which are entirely free from the fine more or 
less transverse markings or mottling characteristic of E. lineatus ; second, 
in the whole of the central tail-feathers, except just at the tip and the 
margins of the inner webs, being boldly variegated black and white, instead 
of, as in iJ. lineatus, almost the whole of the inner webs and the terminal 
half, at any rate, of the outer webs being white or sullied white, free from 
markings, and such markings as exist on the basal portions being fine. 
[Hume.) 
Length 30 inches, tail 13*5, wing 11-5, tarsus 3'62, bill from gape 1'55. 
The legs and feet dark pinkish fleshy ; the bill pale bluish horny ; the 
facial skin deep crimson ; the irides brown. [Davison.) 
