pale golden-red and lurid red and golden] a triangular black spot at the tips of the
feathers, and the margins fringed with black ; the upper back reddish-chestnut,
obscurely margined with lurid golden with yellowish-red and violet reflexions ; the
shafts of the feathers white ; the breast intense steel-blue, with brilliant green and
violet reflexions ; the lower breast obscurely spotted with reddish scarlet; the sides of
the body pale golden chestnut or reddish-brown, broadly subfasciated and narrowly
and distantly lined with black, with lurid golden reflexions ; the middle of the
abdomen shining bluish-green; the wing-coverts brown and very broadly margined
with cinereous, with violet reflexions; the quills brown, banded with fulvous.
The specimens were brought to me without their tails.
Above brownish-black, the feathers margined with brownish-yellow ; the
interscapulars reddish margined with pale brown ; the chin and throat white ;
below greyish-brown ; the belly faintly lined with brown ; the sides of the abdomen
with large dart-shaped brownish-black markings ; thè quills brown, spotted
and banded with blackish-brown and washed with rufous*
Common on the grassy hills around Momien.
I have another hen pheasant from the same locality, but differing from the
female of this species in the following particulars, viz., the under parts are tawny,
and the breast and sides of the abdomen are only feebly spotted with reddish- brown.
The two males in my possession are alike in every particular.
I t appears to be closely allied to P . versicolor and P. torquatus. I t is affined
to the former species by its colourless neck, pale tipped rump, and greyish wing-
coverts, and deeply coloured breast and belly, but differs from it in having the
lower breast obscurely spotted with reddish scarlet, and the sides of its abdomen
richly but broadly semifasciated. The rump, breast, interscapulars and sides have
a strong resemblance to P . torquatus*
I t differs from P . elegans, with which I was at first disposed to think it as
identical, by the dark metallic bluish-green being continued much further down the
back of the neck, in the darker colour of the rump, which has less green in it, and
in the absence of black and white concentric wavy lines in the centres of the feathers
of the wing-coverts, and in this respect it is allied to P . sham and to P. insignis.
Family—TETRÀÓNID2E
Genus P r a n c o l i n u s , Stephens.
189. P r a n c o l in u s p e r l a t u s , Gm.
■Lit per Arise porlée de la Chine, Buff., Hist. Nat. des Ois., t. ii, 1772, p. 452.
Pearled partridge, Lath., Syn., vol. ii, 1781, p. 648; Geni. Hist. B., vol. viii, 1823, p. 276.
Tetrao sinensis, Osbeck., Voy. en Chine, 1771, p. 826.
Tetraoperlatus, Gm., Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i, pt. ii, p. 758, 13th ed., 1783.
Perdio: sinensis, Brisson, Ornith., vol. i, 1790, p . 284, pi. xxviiiA, fig. 1.
Perdix periata, Temrn., Pig. and Gall., vol. iii, 1815; p* 326 ; Vieillot, Galerie des Oiseaux, tome
ii, 1825, p. 41, tab. ccxiii.
Francolinusperlatus, Stephens, Genl.- Zool., vol. xi, pt. ii, 1819, p. 325; Swinhoe, ibid., 1860,
p. 63; id., op. cit., 1861, p. 50 ; 1862, p. 259; 1867, p. 406.
Francolinusphayrei, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., vol. xii, 1843, p. 1011; id., op. cit., vol. xxiv, 1855,
p. 480; Blyth & Walden, op. cit., vol. xliv, extra No., 1875, p. 149.
Francolinus maculatus, Gray, Zool. Misc., 1844, p. 2.
Francolinus sinensis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, 1849, p. 251; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool.
Soc., 1868, p. 807 ; op. cit., 1871, p. 400; Ibis, 1870, p. 359; Oates, Stray Feathers, 1877,
p. 164; W. Eamsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 468,
Francolinus chinensis, Hume, Nests and Eggs, 1878, p. 539; id., Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 171.
a. 3 Bhamd, 2nd February 1875.
There can be no doubt regarding the identity of F. phayrei with the Chinese
partridge.
Genus A r b o r i c o l a , Hodgson.
190. A r b o r ic o l a a t r o g u l a r i s , Blyth.
Arboricola atrogula/ris, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xviii, p. 819, 1849; id., Cat. B., Mus.
As. Sop., Bengal, p. 253, 1849; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, p. 579, 1864.
Perdix atrogularis, Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 267, 1871.
Arborophila atrogularis, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 449; op. cit., 1877, p. 44.
a. § Kakhyen hills, 18th February 1875.
Genus B a m b u s i c o l a , Gould.
191. B a m b u s ic o l a f y t c h i i , n. s. Plate LIV.
Bambusicolafytchii, Anders., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 214, pi. x i; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As.
Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 152; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1877, vol. v, p. 493.
Bambusicola hopkinsoni, Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliii, pt. ii, 1874, p. 172;
Hume, Stray Feathers, iii, 1875, p. 899.
a. b. $ $ Ponsee, 12th March 1868.
This bird occurred on the old rice clearings on the hill sides at Ponsee.
The species extends to the Khasi hills (Shillong), where it was first obtained by
Major Godwin-Austen and afterwards by Mr. Cockburn collecting for Mr. Hume.
I have compared the types of B. fytchii with the type pf B. hopkinsoni, and
find that the two are specifically identical, as was pointed out by Mr. Hume.
Family—TURNICID^l.
Genus T u r n i x , Bonnat.
192. T u r n i x p l u m b i p e s , Hodgson.
Hemipodius plumbipes, Hodgs., Bengal Sport. Mag., 1837, p. 346.
Turnix atrogularis, Eytou, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1839, p. 107.
Hemipodius taigoor, Eyton, t. c., p. 107.
Twnix taigoor, Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Coll. Hodgs., p. 128, 1846.
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