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Show 1882.] THE MALE AND FEMALE OF PHASIANUS HUMLE. 717 with five similar but broader black bands, only here and there showing a trace of a chestnut tinge; the bars on the next two pairs broader again, and a purer black ; the three outer pairs broadly black at the tip, and the rest grey freckled with black. " The inner scapulars silver-white, the innermost of all with large, subterminal, unsymmetrical, blue-grey spots, and the outer ones partially fringed at the tip with a somewhat purpler grey ; the outer scapulars much the same colour as the interscapulary region ; the smallest wing-coverts a dull maroon ; the rest of the lesser and most of the median coverts a dull dusky metallic green, but the longest median coverts a maroon chestnut; the primaries and greater coverts and winglet hair-brown, the first with the terminal one third or more of the outer webs a yellowish chestnut; the secondaries blackish interiorly, exteriorly chestnut, obliquely tipped with white and with an antepenultimate black band ; tertiaries and their greater coverts similar, but more of the inner webs chestnut and their tipping transverse; secondary greater coverts blackish, broadly tipped white. " The lower parts, below the upper breast, a rich maroon chestnut, but the feathers of the lower breast and its sides, and quite the upper abdomen with fiery crimson fringes (scarcely visible in some lights), preceded by a black shaft-spot; vent and tibial plumes brown ; lower tail-coverts black, with a dull-green metallic sheen ; wing-lining (except the lower greater primary-coverts, which are a delicate satin-grey) a pale brownish chestnut, the feathers narrowly margined with brown. "The female is still unknown." Description of Female (in the collection of Godwin-Austen).- Throughout of a pale ochreous brown tint, with a nude red patch surrounding the eye. Above-head rusty brown, each feather with a small black subterminal spot; the ground-colour fades on the back of the neck into pale ruddy ochraceous, each feather having a light spot with a subterminal black band; these merge into the darker feathers of the nape and upper back, where the above light spot becomes broadly white and triangular or arrowhead-shaped, set in velvet-black, the tip of the feather being ashy grey-brown. The lower back and rump is pale ochre-brown, speckled finely with black, the feathers having a subterminal large black spot or streak, this becoming larger towards the upper tail-coverts, which are more ruddy ochraceous, with splashes of black-brown near the webs. The tail is maroon or chestnut, the two central feathers tipped with white; a subterminal black bar three quarters of an inch from the end, and six imperfect bars of the same colour at the above distance apart, which do not extend across the shaft. The outer tail-feathers similar, but with no black on the outer webs, and only a slight indication of the black bar on the margin of the inner web. Below, including side of the neck, throat, and breast, of a dull pale sienna-brown, slightly greyish, some of the feathers on the side of the neck with small black tips. From the upper breast, the sides, thigh-coverts, to the abdomen tbe feathers have a |