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585. — RUFOUS-TAILED PHEASANT. Acoiuus cyythrophthahnus. 
Hybrids. 
RUFOUS-TAILED PHEASANT x BLACK-BACKED KALIJ. 
In evidence at the S.K. Museum, fVale. 
( ? wild or in captivity, for the same apphes to this and other game-bird 
hybrids, as in the note under Grouse hybrids, E.H.). 
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586. — BORNE AN FIREBACK PHEASANT. Lophura nobilis. 
Zoo, 1912. See report, 1913. " The first time in the Gardens; one was 
killed by rats and the other lived till nearly adult." 
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587. — WHITE-CRESTED KALIJ PHEASANT Gennaeus albicrislattis. 
W.T.P. 
Hybrids. 
X White-crested Kalij (Black-breasted Kalij). 
X White-crested Kalij (Burmese Silver Pheasant). 
X White-crested Kalij (Silver Pheasant). 
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588. — BLACK-BACKED KALIJ. G. niclanonofus. 
Zoo, 1910. The first time in the Gardens. 
Hybrids. 
BLACK-BACKED KALIJ x WHITE-CRESTED KALIJ. 
fBartlett. " Offspring fertile " fBartlett. 
BLACK-BACKED KALIJ x BLACK-BREASTED KALIJ. fBartlett. 
X Black-backed Kalij (Rufous-tailed Pheasant). 
X Black-backed Kalij (Pheasant). 
X Black-barked Kalij (Silver Pheasant). 
X Black-backed Kalij (Burmese Silver Pheasant). 
Bartlett = The lisL in Wild Aniinais in Captivity by A. D. Bartlett, 1898. 
To be Continued. 
The Endurance of Birds. 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
(Continued from page 245 last volume). 
St. Helena Skedeater (Scrinus fiaviventris) : This is 
a very beautiful serin, larger and more brilliantly coloured than 
the well known Green Singing-finch, which, however, it greatl/ 
