P h a s ia n u s lin e a tu s , Vig., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1831, p. 24 (ex Lath. MS.); Beavan, Ibis, 1868,
p. 381.
G en n a u s lin ea tu s , Wagl., Isis, 1832, p. 1228.
P h a s ia n u s fa s c ia tu s , Mc’Clell., Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist., vol.ii, p. 146, pi. iii, 1832.
P h a s ia n u s r e y n a u d ii,l-ie s s ., Voy. Belang. Zool., p. 276, pis. viii, ix, 1834.
L ophophorus leucomelas, Gray, List Gen. B., p. 60, 1840 (hybrid).
Puplocamus lin ea tu s, Gray, List Gen. B., p. 78, 1841; Blyth, Cat. B. Mns. As. Spc., Bengal, p.
244, 1849 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1868, p. 120; Selater, in Wolf’s Zool. Sketches, ii ser.,
p. 88,1867; Gray, List B. Brit. Mns. Gall., p. 84, 1867; id., Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 260,
1870; Elliot, Monogr. Phas.,-vol. ii, pi. xxiii, 1872; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xxviii, 1875;
Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, pp. 16, 165 ; Oates, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 164.
A le c trophasis leucomelanos, Gray, List Gen. B., p. 78, 1841 (hybrid).
G attophasis lin ea tu s , Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, p. 498,1845.
Gallophasis fa s c ia tu s , id., I. c.
Grammatoptilus lin e a tu s , Bonap., C. R., xlii, p. 879,1856.
Pvplocamus cuoieri, Oates, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 342.
a. g Mengoon, Upper Burma, February 1868.
This bird was shot by one of our party on the right bank of the Ira wady,
a short way above Mandalay.
186. E u p l o c a m u s a n d e r s o n i , Elliot. P1.LIII.
Jfiuplocamus ande rsoni, Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1874, p. 187 ; id., Monogr., P h a s ia n id a , ii, pi. xxii,
1872.
Ny c th em e ru sa n d e r so n i, Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, ex. No., p. 149,
1875. _
a . g Kakhyen hills to the east of Bham6.
b. g „ „ „ ■ „
I first became acquainted with this bird through its tail feathers which I received
as a present from a hill chief. They were sufficient to indicate the
existence of a hitherto unknown species of silver pheasant which I mentioned in
my notes at the time under a distinct name. However I soon afterwards was
fortunate enough to obtain a living specimen which was kept alive in Calcutta
for some time until it-was in full plumage. I t was then figured, and the drawing
was submitted to Mr. Elliott, who confirmed the opinion I had formed regarding
the marked distinctness of the bird from the common lineated pheasant of Burma
and its affinity to the silver pheasant of China. I placed the drawing at his
disposal, and he described the bird in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society.
On the second expedition of 1875 I procured another male somewhat younger
than the type, but agreeing with it in all its essential details, and this specimen
is now in the British Museum.
Again, since then, I have succeeded, through the kind assistance of Captain
Cooke, Assistant Political Resident, Upper Burma, in obtaining another male which
has now been alive in the Zoological Garden, Calcutta, for more than a year.
I t agrees exactly with the type. I have never succeeded in obtaining a female.
Hr. Sclater' has recently suggested that the female of this species is the bird
which Mr. Gould has reproduced in his Birds of Asia as the female of O. proelatus.
Mr. Gould’s figure is founded on a drawing of a female pheasant which was
obtained by Crawfurd on his mission to Ava, and on which drawing Hr. J . E;
Gray established the species P. crmofurdi described in Griffith’s Cuvier’s Animal
Kingdom.® Thé evidence, however, of the identity of P. crcmfu/rdi with E. andersoni
is not so complete as to entitle us to accept the name P . crawfurdi which
is applicable only to a drawing.
Genus T h a u m a l e a , Wagler.
187. T h a t jm a l e a a m h e r s t iæ , Leadb.
Phasianus amherstioe, Leadb., Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xvi, p. 129, PI. 15, 1829; Temm., PI. Col.,
'82nd.'Îivr., 1830.
Thaumalea amherstioe, Wagl., Isis, 1832, p. 1228 ; Gray, List B., Brit. Mus., vol. iii, p. 24, 1844 ;
Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, p. 246, 1849 ; Bonap., C. R., xlii, p. 879, 1856; Sclater,
Proc.- Zool. Soc., 1863, p. 117 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 307 ; Elliot, Monogr. Phas.,
ii, pi. xiv, 1872 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xyiii, 1866,
JSpomia amherstii, Hodgs., in Gray’s Zool. Misc., p. 85, 1844.
Chrysolophus amherstioe. Gray, List Gall., p. 29, 1867 ; id., Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 258,1870.
a,. 3 Muangla, May 1868.
b. $ Momien, June 1868.
This splendid bird occurs on the hills between Sanda and Momien, and in the
country to the north and west. The tail feathers are largely used as plumes for
the war hats of the Panthay Officers, and it is a veil known bird to the hillmen
generally. I obtained the cock at Muangla, and the hen at Momien, and since
the expedition of 1868 a living male was sent down to Bhamô, from whence it was
forwarded to the Chief Commissioner, the Hon’ble A. Eden.
Genus P h a s i a n u s , Linn.
188. P h a s i a n u s s l a d e n i , Andr. Plate LII.
Phasianus sladeni, M.S. Anderson, Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc., June, 1870, pp. 404, 408; Anderson,
op. cit., 1871, p. 214 (pars).
a. fy b. 8 c. 8f d. % Momien, June 1868. (5,000 ft.).
The forehead, head, nape, chin, and throat deep metallic green ; the sides and
lower part of the neck and the throat intense metallic purple ; ear-coVerts brownish
black, with faint green reflexions ; the region of the eye and the sides of the
face naked, reddish scarlet ; the shafts of the interscapulars and dorsal feathers
yellowish ; all the dorsal feathers black at the base ; interscapulars and humerais
1 Proc. Zool. Soc* 1876,-p. 274
* 1. c., vol. viii, p. 27,1829. <