JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



May 1919. Vol. XXVI. No. 2. 



THE GAME BIKDS OF INDIA, BUKMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



E. C. Stuart Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 

 Part XXVI. 

 With a Coloured Plate. 

 {Continued fro7n page 18 of Volume XXVI.) 



Genus— LOPHOPHORUS. 



The genus LopJiophorus contains but three species as it is now 

 generally accepted that the bird hitherto known as the Bronze-backed 

 Monal is merely a freak variety of the common form. 



The three known species differ very widely from one another and 

 each might well be placed in a genus by itself. 



LophopJiorus impejanus has a crest of long feathers spatulate at the 

 end and with the shafts w'ebless over five-sixths of their length. The 

 tail consists of 18 feathers, well graduated and with the ends termi- 

 nating in points as shewn in the wood-cut. The upper tail coverts 

 are short, very stifi and end in points as do the tail feathers, 



LopJiophorus sclateri has the crest composed of short curly feathers 

 in a dense mass over the anterior crown ; the naked part of the face 

 is more extended, and the tail is composed of 20 tail feathers and is 

 much less graduated, whilst the tips are square, not pointed. The 

 upper tail coverts are soft, full and long and either square or gently 

 rounded at the tips. If placed in a separate genus this bird would 

 be knowTL as Clmlcophasis, Elliott. 



Lophophorus Vhuysii has the crest composed of ordinary feathers, 



long, narrow and slightly lanceolate. The tail appears to be composed 



of 22 feathers and the upper tail coverts are very long, coming to 



within an inch and a half of the tip of the tail feathers. In character 



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