THE LINE ATED PHEASANT, 
Euplocamus lineatus. 
Plate XXXVIII. 
The Lineated Pheasant is closely allied to the three species of the same genus commonly called “ Kaleeges,” 
now well known in Europe, since their introduction through the agency of the Zoological Society 
in 1851.* Its nearest ally is Horsfield’s Kaleege, of which a figure has already been given in these Sketches, 
and a series of intermediate varieties are said to occur in a wild state which connect that bird with the 
present species, although the two extreme forms, when compared together, present very marked distinctions 
in plumage. 
The Lineated Pheasant is a native of the Forests of Tenasserim and Pegu, extending southwards into 
Siam. From the latter country specimens have been obtained for the Paris Museum, which differ from the 
northern bird only in their more robust form and rather stronger markings. 
This species was first introduced alive into England in 1864, examples of both sexes having reached the 
Regent’s Park Gardens in the month of J une of that year. It was not, however, until the summer of 1806 
that its reproduction was first effected. The bird again bred during the present season, and there are 
consequently great hopes that its name may shortly be added to the list of acclimatizable Phasianidce. 
* See Zoological Sketches, ser. 1, pi. xxxix. 
