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Jard., Nat Lib. Orn., p. 186, pis. XI. and XII. ; Blyth, Ann. Mag. N. H. 

 XX., p. 388 ; iti., Cat. Mus. As. Soc, p. 243 ; Burgess, P. Z. S., 1856, 

 p. 29 ; Jordon, B. Ind., III., p. 539 ; Bulger, P. Z. S., 1866, p. 571 ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1867, pp. 154, 307 ; Elwes, Ibis, 1870, p. 528 ; Elliot, Mon. Phas., II., 

 p. 34 ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 401 ; Hume, N. and E. Ind. B., p. 531 ; Butler, 

 Str. Fr., IV., p. 5 ; Fairb., ibid, IV., p. 262 ; Hume, ibid, IV., p. 404 ; Butler, 

 ibid, v., p. 222 ; Fairb., ibid, V., p. 409 ; Marshall, B. Nests Ind., p. 59 ; 

 Gould, B. Asia, VII., p. 56 ; Hume and Marsh, Game B. Ind., I., p. 231, 

 pi. ; Davidson and Wend, Str. Fr., VII., p. 86 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind, p. 53 ; 

 Mclnroy, Str. Fr. VIII., p. 493 ; Vidal, ibid., IX., p. 76; Butler, ibid, IX., 

 pp. 205, 421 ; Davidson, Str. Fr. X., p. 316; Davison, X., p. 409; Swinh. 

 and Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 131 ; Taylor, Str. Fr., X., p. 464 ; Terry, ibid, X., 

 p. 479 ; Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs, III., p. 420 ; id. Game B. of In., 

 I., p. 364 ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. Ind., IV., p. 78 ; Sharpe, Hand-L., I.; p. 35 ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. B. M., XXI., p. 350 ; Barnes, B. N. H. S. Jour., VI., 

 p. 3 ; Davidson, ibid, XII, p. 63 (1898) ; Betham, ibid, p. 363 (1900) ; 

 Ferguson, ibid, XVI., p. 3 (1904) ; Finn., Avi. Mag. Feb., 1910, p. 129. 



Phasianus indicus. — Leach, Zool. Misc., II., p. 6, pi. 61 (1815). 



Fernacular names, — Jungli-murgha S , Jungli-murgi $ [Hindus) ; Komri 

 {Mt. Abu); Pardah-Komri, {Gondki, Chanda Dist.) ; Ean-Kombada c? > 

 Ran-Kombadi 5 {Marati) ; Kombadi {Deccmi) ; Kattu-Kozli or Koli 

 (Tarn.) ; Adavikode (Teleffu); Koli, Kad-Koli, (Canarese) ; Geera-Kur (Marie 

 Gond), 



Description — Adult male. — Feathers at the sides of the forehead 

 dull rufous ; head, neck and hackles of the extreme upper back 

 black with grey, fringes to the bases, and with numerous bars 

 changing from golden j^ellow on nape and shoulders to pure white 

 on the back ; on the longer feathers the black bars are glossed with 

 purple blue. Feathers of the back, rump, and lesser win^ coverts 

 black fringed with gray, and with broad white shaft streaks, the 

 majority also Avith concealed longitudinal grey bars. Longest and 

 lateral rump feathers highl}^ glossed with purple and with chestnut 

 instead of grey fringes, in addition to which they are marked with 

 pale yellow or white spots. Upper tail coverts l3lack glossed with 

 violet, purple and blue, and edged with chestnut and buif. 



Median wing coverts and scapulars black, barred on the basal 

 half with grey and Avith white shafts which expand at the tips for a 

 length of about an inch into spatulate, flat plates of orange j^ellow 

 about two inch wide ; the majority of which have fringes on the 

 outer side of deep red. Greater coverts and quills blackish brown, 

 the innermost quills and coverts with white shafts, and 

 sometimes a small amount of whitish freckles near the tip. Lower 

 parts from the hackles to vent dark grey brown to black with 

 broad v/hite shaft stripes and grey or grey-white edges ; feathers of 

 posterior flanks and a few of those on the abdomen with orange 

 rufous edges. Feathers of vent and centre of abdomen dull rufes- 

 cent brown ; under tail coverts black with white edges. 



Colours of soft parts. — " The legs and feet are yellow, or reddish 

 yellow, and the claws black, but I have one specimen, probably a 

 3'oung bird, noted as having had the legs and feet greenish brown. 



