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Show 1870.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON NEW* CHINESE BIRDS. 135 the occiput, which is almost concealed by the long coronal feathers lores, under eye, and ear-coverts brown ; throat and breast light brownish buff, the latter marked with short streaks of brown. Axillaries and remaining under parts white, broad black and brown streaks running along the flanks and at the base of the tibiae. Wing-coverts black, narrowly edged with brownish grey, and tipped with creamy white, forming a double bar across the wing ; quills hair-brown, narrowly margined with pale reddish brown ; the tertiaries blacker, with their edgings broader and washed with rust-colour ; inner edges to quills whitish; outermost tail-feather white, with the apical two-thirds of outer web pale brown ; second rectrix brown on outer web, white only on apical two-thirds of inner web, making a sharp angle at the shaft with the brown which thence mounts obliquely towards the tip; rest of the rectrices, except the two central, deep brown; the centrals brownish grey, edged paler, with brown stems. Bill blackish grey, darkest on the apical two-thirds. Irides deep brown. Legs yellowish flesh-colour, with brownish claws. Length about 5| inches ; wing 2*65 ; tail 2 5 ; bill *63, its depth at base -18 ; tarse *62 ; hind toe *30, claw *25. The female above described is the only specimen I procured. It was shot on the sides of the mountain-gorge near Kweichow, the westernmost city of Hoopih province on the Yangtsze, on the 18th April, 1869. I took it at first for the female of E. chrysophrys, but it is more nearly allied to E. elegans than to that species. Mr. Tristram, after carefully examining and comparing m y specimen, pronounced it distinct, and urged m e to describe and name it at once. 7. PHASIANUS DECOLLATUS, sp. nov. Male. Differs from P. torquatus of China in having the crown deep brown, its feathers margined with bronzed reflections ; in having no white superciliary mark, and no indications of a white collar. The bare red skin of the face is very small. Entire neck fine duck-green, with purple reflections. The feathers of the upper back differ from those in P. torquatus in having their centres black, with a narrow median yellowish streak and broad chestnut cross mark. Those of the breast are a duller chestnut, with their black margins reflecting green instead of purple. The black bars of the tail are about the same distance apart, but are much broader. Bill pale lemon-yellow, slightly tinged with brown. Iris yellow. Eyelid blood-red, fringed with black. Face-skin blood-red, speckled with black. Legs light bluish grey, with brown-tinged toes and claws, the latter tipped with black. Length of wing 9*25 inches ; of tail about 18 ; bill in front 1*38 ; tarse 2*65. On the 13th of May, 1869, the day after our arrival at Chungking-foo in Szechuen, the servant returned from the market with this Pheasant. He fortunately showed it to me before he handed it to the cook. I was at once struck by the absence of the collar, and tried to get more specimens, but without success. The natives declared that they had never seen the Pheasant with the white collar. I consider the want of the collar a very striking peculiarity, as, among the |