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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



December 1918. Vol. XXVI. No. 1 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



E. 0. Stuiet Bakek, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Pakt XXV. 

 With a Golowred Plate. 

 (^Continued from page 546 of Volume XXV.) 



Genns—GATREUS. 



The Genus Catreus contains a single species very closely allied to 

 the true Pheasants, but differing from them in having, a long full 

 crest. 



The female differs from the male in plumage, but not to an}-- 

 thing like the extent the true female Phasiaims contrasts with the 

 male. 



The tail is vei'y long, and is carried like that of Phasianus, not 

 compressed like that of iyop/mv'x and Gemueus. It is composed of 

 18 feathers, the central pair very long and about five times as long- 

 as the outermost. 



The wing is rounded, the fifth primary longest and first shorter 

 than the tenth. The feet are strong and the tarsi armed with spurs, 

 occasionallj^ represented by knobs in the female. 



The only species, G. wallichi, is confined to Indian limits. 



Catreus wallichi. 

 The Cheer Pheasant. 



Phasianus wallichi, Hardw., Trans. L. S., xv., p. 166(1827) (Almorah) ; 

 Button, J. A. S. F., xvii., pt. 2, p. 695 (1848); Blytb, Cat. Mus. A. S., 

 p. 245 (1849) (N. W. Himalayas) ; Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 235 (Kumaon) ; 

 Jerdon, B. of I., iii., p. 527 (1863) ; Tytler, Ibis, 1861, p. 235, ' (Simla) 



