204 CRAWFURD'S SILVER PHEASANT.
W E MEASURED one single specimen in the flesh :—
Male—Length, 30-0 ; expanse, 3275 ; tail from vent, 13-5 •
wing, 11-5 ; tarsus, 362 ; bill from gape, 1-55. Weight, 275 lbs.
The legs and feet were dark pinkish fleshy; the bill pale
bluish horny; the facial skin deep crimson ; the irides brown.
T H E PLATE.—Bill and feet utterly miscoloured, though the very
note just given was attached to the specimen sent to the artist.
In other respects the plate does indicate to a certain extent the
difference between the coarse bold markings of this present
species and the excessively fine vcrmicellations of the next.
OUR PLATE is labelled E. andcrsoni; I consider, with Dr.
Sclater, that it should take Mr. Gray's name, founded on one of
Crawfurd's drawings. But many consider this identification
doubtful, and if it be not accepted, the species will stand as
labelled on the plate.
