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close to one another in appearance until the nyciheme'i-us group 

 have acquired the pale, dark margined plumage in part or whole. 



GENNiEUS ALBOCRISTATUS. 



The White-Crested Kalij. 



f Phasianus hamiltonii, Gray, in Griffith, eel. Cuvier III., p. 27 (1829) ; id. 

 111. Ind. Zool. 1., PL 41 (1830). 



Phasianus albocri status, Vigors, P. Z. S., p. 9 ('1830) ; Gould, Gen. B. H., 

 Pis. 66-67 (1832). 



Euplocomus albocristatus, Hutton, J. As. Soc. Bang. XVII, pt. II. p. 693 

 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. Asiat. Soc, p. 244 (1849). 



Euplocamus albocristatus, Adams, P. Z. S., p. 499 (1858) ; Elliot. Mon. 

 Phas. II, PI. (1872) ; Hume and Inglis, St. Feath. V., p. 42 (1877) ; Hume, 

 ibid, VII., p. 429 (1878) ; Hume and Marsh, Game— B, I, p. 177, PI. (1878). 



Euplocamus albicristatus. Gates, ed. Hume's Nest and Eggs III, p. 413 

 (1890). 



Gallophasis albocristatus, Mitch., P. Z. S. (1858), p. 544, Pis. 148, fig. 1 and 

 149, fig. 3 ; Jerd., B. of In, 111, p. 532 (1863) ; Hume, Nest and Eggs, In. B., 

 p. 526 (1873) ; Marsh, Birds' Nests Ind., p. 58 (1877). 



Gennceus albocristatus, Ogilvie-Graut, Cat. Birds B. M. XXII, p. 298 

 (1893) ; id. Hand— L., Game— B. I, p. 258 (1895) ; Stuart Baker, Jour. 

 B. N. H. S., XXIII, p. 666 (1915). 



Gennceus albicristatus, Gates, Game — B. I, p. 324 (1898) ; Blanf., Fauna 

 B.I. Birds IV., p. 89 (1898); Gates, Cat. Eggs B. M. 1, p. 54(1901): 

 Rattray, Jour. B. N.H.S. XVI., p. 663 (1905); Ghigi, Mem. Acad., Bolo- 

 gna (6), v., p. 145 (1908) ; Magrath, Jour. B. N. H. S. XVIII., p. 298 

 (1908) ; "Pine Marten," ibid, XIX., p. 796 (1910). 



Vernacular Names. — Kalij, Knkera, Mirghi Kalij, Kulesur j , 

 Kalesi 5 (Hin. In varioiis i)arts of the N. W. Himalayas) Kolsa, 

 (^Western Punjab and Ghamba). 



Description — Adult Male. — Forehead, feathers above the eye, 

 cheeks, nape and neck black glossed with pm-plish-blue. Long hairy 

 crest white or dirty pale brown, the feathers next the forehead and 

 sides of the crown mixed with darker brown and black, so that 

 these parts merge into one another rather than contrast. Feathers 

 of the upper back like the neck, but more blue than purple in sheen 

 and with dull edges of pale brown or whitish. Lower back, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts black glossed with steel-blue and with broad 

 edges of pure white generally divided from the black by a very 

 narrow band of brown. Tail feathers above glossy blue-black, 

 below dark brown, sometimes with pale tips. Chin, throat and 

 foreneck dark brown wdth pale shafts, gradually changing into grey 

 on the lower foreneck, which has a pale steel-bhie sheen, and again 

 into white tinged more or less with brown on long lanceolate 

 feathers of the breast and flanks. Abdomen, vent under tail-coverts 

 dull brown, more or less edged paler and not distinctl}' defined from 

 breast or flanks. Lesser and median wing-coverts like the feathers 

 of the back, and like them with nearly white shafts and two fairly 

 well-marked areas of green and blue gloss ; greater coverts witli a 



