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and with irregular bars of black with pale rufous centres ; outermost 

 tail feathers chestnut with white tips, black sub-terminal bands 

 and black mottling on either web ; intermediate feathers the same, 

 but with comparatively less and less black on each succeeding pair. 

 Chin and throat creamy buff, with a line of black spots running 

 down each side from the angle of the gonys ; foreneck and hind 

 neck buff, with broad black or dark brown edges, remainder of lower 

 plumage pale buff to a creamj^ rufous, each feather with longitudinal 

 markings of dark brown, narrowest on the breast, and broadest 

 on the posterior flanks ; under tail-coverts chestnut with white 

 spots ; vent and centre of abdomen whitish with drops of dark 

 brown on either web. 



The depth of colouring, both above and below and its prevailing 

 tint varj'- very greatly in individuals from the same locality, some 

 being very much more rufous than others. 



Colours of soft imrts. — The same as in the male. 



Measuremenis.-^y^ mgivom1-\" (180-3 mm.) to 8-6" (218-4 

 mm.), with an average of 8-15" (207-0 mm.) ; tail from 6-8" 

 (172-7 mm.) to 7-7" (195-5 mm.), and averaging about 7" (177-8 

 mm.) : bill at front about 1-0" (25-4 mm.), and from gape about 

 1-2" (;;0-4 mm.); tarsus about 2-45" (36-8 mm.). 



Huiiie gives the weight of the male as being from 2-lbs. 2-ozs. 

 to 2-lbs. 14-ozs., and that of the female as 1-lb. 10-ozs. to 2-lbs. 



DistriJmtion. — Naiui-Tal, Almorah, Garhwal and Tehri-Garhwal, 

 the Simla States Northwards into Lahul. According to Ward the 

 true macrolopha is found in Jammu in the South of Kashmir, and it 

 is not until one works further North- West that one comes across 

 P. m. hidduljphi, but Jammu birds appear to be intermediate, 

 though perhaps nearer m. macrolopha than to m. hiddulphi. Speci- 

 mens from Murree are also nearer the former than the latter, and 

 it appears that the Common Koklas Pheasant inhabits the extreme 

 South of Kashmir, through Jammu, Naoshera and Punch as far as this 

 town, its place being taken throughout Northern and Central 

 Kashmir by Marshall's Koklas. Probably in the North-West the 

 Jhelum River above where it turns due South forms the Southern 

 boundary, and in the same way the Chenab, where it runs East 

 and Wi'st forms its Southern boundary North of Jammu. 



NidificafAon. — Throughout its range the Koklas Pheasant breeds 

 principally between 6,000 and 9,000 feet, sometimes higher up to 

 12,000 feet, at which altitude Whymper found them breeding freely 

 in Garhwal in the Niti and Nila Valleys, and occasionally lower 

 down, perhaps to some 4,500 feet, but though it maj'- stray even 

 lower than this in the cold weather, more birds will be found 

 breeding over 7,500 feet than below this range. 



Rattray has a beautiful photograph of this pheasant's nest 

 which appeared in this Society's Journal, taken by him near 



