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Show 164 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON NEW PHEASANTS. [Mar. 24, scente, inde a pectore linea nigra divisa : abdomine cineraceo-fusco, obsolete variegato, hypochondriis albo ocellatis: tectricibus alarum et tibiis imis castaneis: cauda intus lacteo-alba nigro terminata, extus fusca : rostro (in ave viva) nigro, pedibus rubido-carneis : iride obscure brunnea : crassitie fere specierum reliquarum. Hab. in Assamia superiore (Jerdon). Vivario. Soc. Zool. Londinensis. The present bird will therefore form a fifth member of the genus Ceriornis, of which the species now known to science will stand as follows :- 1. CERIORNIS SATYRA (Gould, B. Asia, pt. xx.). Hab. Southern slopes of tbe Himalayas of Nepaul, Sikim, and Bhotan, at an elevation of from 6000 to 9000 feet. Pairs of this Tragopan were first received by the Society in 1863. They bred in the Gardens in 1864 and the following years, and we had goodhopesof their becoming permanent denizens of our aviaries*; but, I am sorry to say, these expectations have not been fulfilled, and we have since lost the whole of these birds. Nor, I believe, have the sister societies on the Continent been more successful in the present case. 2. CERIORNIS MELANOCEPHALA (Gould, B. Asia, pt. vii.). Hab. Southern slopes of North-western Himalayas, at an elevation of from 6000 to 9000 feet, Kumaon, Gurwhal, and Cashmere. 3. CERIORNIS TEMMINCKII (Gould, B. Asia, pt. xxi.). Hab. Hills of Eastern and Northern Szechuen, extending thence into Central China. Monseigneur Chauveau sent skins of this Ceriornis from the hills above Ta-kien-liou along with those of Lophophorus Vhuysi and Ithaginis geoffroyi (Bull. Soc. Accl. 1867, p. 705). Living examples were likewise obtained by Mr. Medhurst to the north of Hankow along with those of Reeves's Pheasant. 4. CERIORNIS CABOTI (Gould, B. Asia, pt. x.). Hab. Hills of Quang-sze, Southern China. The original specimen of this bird was obtained at Macao, and for some years was the only individual known of the species. Mr. Swinhoe subsequently purchased a living example in a bird-shop at Hong-kong (see 'Ibis,' 1865, p. 350), and has reason to believe it was brought down the Hong-kiang, or West River, from the hills of the interior of Quang-sze, where there is a fine unexplored country. 5. CERIORNIS BLYTHII. Hab. Hills of Upper Assam, at the head of the valley (Jerdon). * Cf. Wolf & Sclater. Zoological Sketches, ii. pl. xxxix. |
