JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



June 1918. Vol. XXV. No. 4. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



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



Part XXIV. 



Witk (I, Coloured Plate-. 



Phasianid^. 

 QenwQ—PUGUASIA. 



This genus difFei-s from the true Pheasants (Fhasiamis) in having 

 greatly lengthened upper tail-coverts, together with a proportion- 

 ately shorter tail, the feathers of which are graduated so that the 

 central, and longest, rectrices are about twice the length of the 

 outermost pair The head has a well-developed crest, in addition to 

 which the feathers above the ear-coverts are elongated into two long- 

 lateral plumes, contrasting in colour with the occipital crest. There 

 is no bare orbital space, the sides of the face being feathered. 



The wings are rounded, the first primaries being ver}?- short and 

 the second about en;;;! to the eighth. 



The tarsus is stout and strong, and in the male is armed with a 

 spur, generally short and blunt. 



Species and Sub-species, 



The Koklas Pheasants belong to a genus which extends over an 

 immense area of country, stretching from the Western Himalayas 

 in India through Tibet and China into Manchuria. 



Naturally, therefore, we find that it splits up into a considerable 

 number of species and sub-species, but it is not always easy to 

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