5. Euplocamus Andersoni. Upper Burmah, on Chinese frontier, is the only habitat known.
6. Euplocamus lineatus. Hilly regions of Burmah, Tenasserim, Pegu, and Siam.
7. Euplocamus preelatus. This species is a native of Siam ; the Shan states, east of Kieng-mai.
- 8. Euplocamus Swinhoi. Island of Formosa'is the only habitat o f this beautiful species.
• 9. Euplocamus ignitus. Found on th e Tenasserim river, Mergui, Malayan peninsula, and the island? óf Sumatra.
10. Euplocamus nobilis. Only found in the island of Borneo.
11. Euplocamus erythrophthalmus. Malayan peninsula and Sumatra.
12. Euplocamus pyronotus. Found only in Borneo.
ITHAGINIS.
Range o f the Genus.
Parts of Indian and Palæàrctic Regions;
Range o f the Species.
' 1. Ithaginis cruentas. Found in the South-eastern Himalaya mountains, in Nepaul, and Sikim.
2. Ithaginis Geqffroyi. Moupin, in Chinese province of Szechuen. Extent o f range unknown.
GALLUS.
Range , o f the Genus,
Indian and Australian Regions.
Range o f the Species.
1. Gallus ferrugineus. Northern India generally. Nepaul, Assam, Bhotan, Burmah, Malágea, islands of Timor, %mbock, Hainan,
Southern Celebes, and Philippines.
2. Gallus Lqfayetti. Only found in the island of Ceylon.
3. Gallus Sonnerati. Southern India.
4. Gallus varius. Islands of Java, Lombock, Sumbawa, and Flores,
’ PHASIDUS. •
Range o f the Genus.
Ethiopian Region.
Range o f the Species .
1. Phasidus niger. Western Africa, vicinity of Cape Lopez.
AGELASTES.
Range o f the Genus.
Ethiopian Region.
Range o f the Species.
1. Agelastes meleagrides. West Africa, vicinity of the Gaboon, Dabocrom, and Elmina.
ACRYLLIUM.
Range o f the Genus.
Ethiopian Region.
Range o f the Species.
1. Aery Ilium vulturinum. Eastern Africa, Zanzibar. Stated to be found in Madagascar, in the Lemurian región.
IN T R O D U C T IO N .
NUMIDA.
Range o f the Genus.
Ethiopian Region.
Range o f the Species. '
1. Numida meleagris. Western Africa.’ Also met with in the Cape-Verdé Islands. 'I t s range appears to be from the Gambia to
the Gaboon.
2. Numida mitrata. Only found in Madagascar.
3. Numida coronata. Ranges over all the frontier districts of South Africa into Ovampoland on the west, and to the Mocambic
on the eas.t, and is still abundant in some parts of the Cape Colony.
4. Numida ptilorhyncha. Only found in Abyssinia.
5. Numida Granti. Ugogo, in Central Africa. The extent of its range unknown. .
6. Numida Ferreauan. Port Natal, in West Africa.
7. Numida cristata. Western Africa.
8. Numida Bucherati. Eastern Africa, Zanzibar, delta o f the Zambesi, vicinity of the Victoria Falls.
9. Numida piumifera. Vicinity of Cape Lopez, Western Africa. How far it may extend into the interior is unknown.
REARING THE YOUNG OF PHEASANTS.
As efforts have been, and are being made by many private persons, as well as by those connected with zoological gardens, to
rear the young of fthe different members of the Phas.ianidm, it has seemed to me that it would not be out of place to insert here
an account of the ways and means of rearing, which have proved most successful with those who have had large numbers of these
birds hatched and brought up to maturity, and whose knowledge of the subject has been gained by the experience of many years.
The following directions, drawn up for me by Mr. A. D. Bartlett, the Superintendent of the Gardens o f the Zoological Society of
London, who is thoroughly versed in the. rearing o f these valuable birds, will be found of great value to all those who have under their
charge any member o f the Phasianidaj. “ I t i s a fact that most of the Phasianidse, on being imported in good health, soon recover
from the effects of the journey and begin to show symptoms of a desire to breed. I have before remarked that the males frequently
turn savagely upon ¡the females; therefore much care and watching is required to separate them from time to time, until they become
reconciled. The eggs are safer when entrusted to common fowls, hens of small size being the best. One of the best modes of
rearing the chicks is to have the floor of the paddock dr yard well covered with dry or burnt earth, without the slightest particle
of growing vegetation, and portions well shaded from the too powerful rays of the sun, especially the coops containing the hens.
Feed them sparingly and frequently, in order to give them as much exercise as possible. There can be no doubt that overfeeding
is dangerous, as many swallow greedily any food they like and can obtain without trouble, and consequently their crops get overcharged,
and the little things remain inactive, lose the use o f their limbs, and become hopeless cripples; whereas if given a small quantity
of food at a time, and they, are required to look about for it, they become strong and active.. I strongly advise, when rearing
gallinaceous birds, that no water should be g iv en th em except that which has.been boiled: not only that which is given them to
drink, ’ but that which is used in mixing their food, and also that with which the ground is sprinkled. Since adopting this plan I
have never seen a chick suffer from the gapes. I believe that the eggs or germs of the parasite that infests the trachea or windpipe
of so many young birds, are obtained by swallowing water that has not been boiled. I therefore strongly advise that this
important matter should be carefully attended to, and thus a complaint be avoided which is most difficult to cure and has proved very
fatal to the rarest and most valuable of the different species of gallinaceous birds. The food must be varied, and great care taken
that it be quite fresh and sweet, as tainted or sour food causes the chicks to become relaxed; .and this generally ends fatally. In
all cases, if possible, the nests should be upon the ground. A common practice is to have them in cribs or cupboards, one above
another, when, if the season should be hot or dry, the chick is either baked or so weak and feeble that it dies in the Shell just