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Boavan, ibid, 1868, p. 380 (Simla) ; Stoliczka, J.A.S.F., xxxvii., pt. 2, 

 p. 68 (1868) (Satlej Valley); Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 524 (1873); 

 Marsh., B. Nest in I., p. 59 (1879); Hume and Marsh., Game-B., i., p. 169 

 (1878) : Scully, Str. Feath., viii., pp. 345, 366 ^1879) (Nepal) ; Marsh., 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 423, (Chamba) ; Gates' ed., Hume's Nests and Eggs, iii., 

 p. 412 (1890). 



Lophoshoros loallichi, Less., Man. d'Grni, ii., p. 179 (1825) ; Vigne. 

 P.Z.S., 1841, p. 6. (Chamba). 



Phasianus stacei, Gould. Cent. Birds., p. 68 (1832) (Himalaya). 



Cati-pus wallichi, Adams, F.Z.S., 1858, p. -^99; Mitchell, ibid, 1858, 

 p. 545; Gould. B. of Asia, vii., p. 18 (1865) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. M., 

 xxii., p. 317 (1893) ; Id., Man. Game-B., ii., p. 1 (1897) ; Blanf., Fauna B. 

 I. Birds, iv., p. 82 (1898) ; Sharpe. Hand-L., i., p. 37 (1899) ; Gates, Cat. 

 Eggs B. M., i., p. 56 (1901) ; Venour, Jour. B N. H. S., xvii., p. 812 (1907) 

 (Dunga Gali, N. W. F. Province) . Ward, ibid, p. 944 (1907) (Jhelum 

 Valley) ; Magrath, ibid, xix., p. 159 (1909) (Murree) ; Finn, Avi. Mag., i,, 

 p. 129 (1910). 



Vernaculxr Names. — Kahh', Chihir (NepaV) ; Cheer (Kumaon, 

 Qarhwal and further West); Bunchil, Boinchil, Herril (Hills, N. of 

 Mussoori') ; Chummun, Chaman (^Ghamha, Kulii, etc.); Reear 

 (Karnar, Drawa, Fir Pavjal, and Kaji Naqh, Rehar {Barcj, N. 

 W. F.) 



Descripiion. — Adidt Male. — Top of the head and feathers of the 

 crest blackish brov\-n, edged paler and with rather conspicuous grey 

 tips ; back of the head and upper nape the same but with the grey 

 edges almost concealing the dark centres ; line of feathers below 

 the bare orbital space and ear-coverts hair-brown, almost black 

 next the bill ; chin, throat and sides of the neck greyish white, 

 very faintly centred with brown streaks, obsolete in some speci- 

 mens ; lower nape and hind neck the same barred with black, 

 scapulars and lesser wing-coverts barred o&hy grey and black, each 

 feather with a narrow g^ey fringe and with the siibterminal black- 

 bar glossed with green ; upper tail-coverts and tail pale buffy grey 

 to almost pure grey at the tip, barred with wide mottled bars of 

 black and dark cinereous grey ; outer tail feathers with the dark 

 grey on the inner webs replaced to a great extent with deep 

 chestnut. 



Primaries brown, the outermost edged and barred with pale buff 

 on the outer webs and both mottled and barred with the same 

 colour on the inner webs; secondaries the same, becoming more 

 and more mottled in characters towards the innermost, which have 

 one broad subterminal bar of black, a second bar less definite in 

 shape and the rest of the feather irregularly mottled with black and 

 buff; greater and median wing-coverts like the lesser, but with 

 more of a buffy-ochre tinge, in some cases becoming here and 

 there almost rufous. 



Below greyish-white, more or less tinged with rufous-buff pos- 

 teriorly and on the flanks each feather barred with black, but with 

 these bars concealed on the fore neck and upper breast, and very 



