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Miscellaneous Notices. 
[Dec. 
7. — Birds described by Hardwicke , or from his papers. By J. E. Gray. 
From Griffith's Cuvier. 
Brown Penang Pheasant. Hardw. MSS. Phasianus castaneus . Belongs to the 
section with naked orbits and short tail. 
Bright chesnut brown, back, wing coverts, and secondaries, minutely black 
speckled : chest, brown and black varied, streaked with white : abdomen black 
lunulated with white; middle tail feathers, slightly black banded: spurs very 
short; head feathers deficient, length about 18 inches. Penang. Mus. Gen. Hardwicke. 
The following have orbits covered with feathers, and short tails — they are perhaps 
more allied to the partridge than the pheasant. 
Black-headed Pheasant. Hardw. MSS. Phasianus Metanocephalus y Gray. 
Varied black and white, small undulated band with white spots, surrounded by 
a large black ring : neck and small wing-coverts, orange-red : chest, orange-red ; 
with white-eyed black spots : belly with black spots, including a smaller white one; 
head and upper part of neck, black ; crest erectile ; orbits feathered like Ph. Satyra , 
but not having either horn or wattle. Female — pale brown : back, varied with black 
lunate spots, and small black edged, white spots ; wings, with angular black bands; 
crown crested, black and brown banded ; neck bright red ; lower part lunulated 
pale brown, with black curved lines; beneath paler, with indistinct blackish 
mated bands ; tail, undulated, black and brown, punctately banded ; spurless, 
Almorah. Gen. Hardwicke. 
Brown Nepal Pheasant. Hardw. Phasianus Nepalensis, Gray. 
Female pale biown: each feather with several curved blackish punctated lines, 
eai the end . beneath paler : lower part of the neck, wing, and body, with trian- 
T , lt< ! edged with black in the centre of each feather; loins and rump 
i «. a i aC , S ^ 0t ° n CerAre °f each feather ; thighs, pale, blackish banded : quills 
anc tail, pale chesnut, with cross bands of black dots. Like female of Lophophorus 
‘P yamts, but oibits, feathers, bill, and plumage different. Length 20 inches. 
, a °' e >^ ai k ci 5 the quill and tail feathers, blackish brown, with 5 or 6 irre- 
gn ar pale, yellowish bands; and a short blunt spur. Under that division of 
» s Ctrix, which Cuvier has denominated Bubo ( Dues), we find in Griffiths' 
“°n ° f tLe R6gne Animale > the following additional note by Gray. 
Others have all the appearance of the Dues : but the tarse and taes are quite 
naked, shielded in front and reticulated behind." 
Hardwicke’s Naked-legged Owl. St. Hardwickie, n. 
e biown . leathers of the upper part marked with a broad longitudinal band: 
t i marked w ith a narrow longitudinal band, and some obscure cross ones : wings 
n / t handed iv ith deep brown. Length 22 inches, India — perhaps the Hectum 
i FOrS a Wor k hke that we have quoted from, should be exposed in limine , 
on . •* ° ^° U1 C01 respondents will be kind enough to state if in the bird in 
•ind rp^ i T du ' H f e s Naf ted-legged Owl ) the legs and feet are “shielded in front 
Iw Tf t n(V ’ aS described hy Gray, or reticulated as well before as be- 
thou d - V i it i m J a PP ear a very trivial circumstance, yet the difference, trivial 
distinction ? ie< * uent ^y oblate been resorted to as a generic much less a specific 
8 .—Climate of Ava. 
has we arp Rcgls,tei of tbe weat her at Ava, communicated by Major Burney, 
l a ted pa “ amed t0 sa y» laid neglected for many months amidst the accumu- 
0Ur P 1 inter s hands; it is a continuation of the former register 
