Tiu: (i.iMJ-: imu)s of im)ia. .'■>37 



It is possible, howevor, tliat the depth of colouring may be in 

 some measiu-e protective, the darker bird being less conspicuous 

 when lying hid in the deeply-shaded gorges and ravines which it 

 frequents. It keeps iniu'h to the Pirn* and Fir forests, but is also 

 to be met with in Oak, Jlhododendron and other kinds as well, 

 but wherever it is found the country is nearly always precipitous 

 and rocky, and where the hills are more or less rounded the birds 

 betake themselves to the steeper places in between them a)id 

 eschew their smoother summits and easier m-adients. 



Like other members of the genus, this Koklas keeps very close 

 to the same groiind, and may be found morning after morning and 

 evening after evening haunting the same open glade in its search 

 for food, which consists as usual of a mixed vegetarian and insect 

 diet. 



In flight, voice and general habits there is nothing to dis- 

 tinouish tliis bird from the last. ^' 



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PUCRASIA MACROLOPIIA NFPALENSIS. 



The Xepal KoJdas. 



Fucrasia macrolop/ia, J erdon {nee. Less.) ; Jerdon B. of India, iii., p. ol'4 

 (1863) (part, Nepal). 



Fucrasia iiipalensis, (Joiild. P. Z. S., 18o4, p. 100 (Nepal. Bootan) ; 

 Gould. B. of Asia, vii. pi. 1^8 (]8."';4) ; Hume, Str. Feath. vii., p. 42s (1878); 

 Hume and Marshall, (Jame B. 1, p. Itio pi. (1878) ; Marshall, Ibis 1879, p. 

 463 (Bootan) : Scully, Str. Feath viii, p. 343 (1879) (W. Nepal); Hume, 

 ibid, p. 449 (1879); Gates, Hume's Nests and Eggs, iii., p. 411 in (1890) 

 (part); Blanf. Faun. Brit. Ind.. iv., p. 84 (1898) (part) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat, 

 Birds B. M., xxii.,p. 314 (1893) (Nepal) ; id. Man. Game B. 1 p. L'84 (189o), 

 (W. Nepal) ; Gates, Man. Game B. 1, p. .320 (1898) (Nepal). 



Fucrasia duvauceli, Bonap. Comp. llend., xliii., p. 879 (18ot''): Elliot, 

 Monog. Phas., 1, pi. 28 (1872) id. Ibis 1878, p. 12."5. 



Fucrasia ducauceli. — Hume Str. Feath. v., p. 138 (1877) id. vii.. p. 124 

 (1878). 



Fucrasia macrnlnplia nipalen.<is, Beebe, Zoologica 1, No. l-">, p. 278 n914). 

 Vernacular Names. — Pcjcrass, (Nepal). 



Descrvption- — Adult Male. -- J^iffers from F. m. hidA/idphL and to an 

 even greater extent from P. m. macroloplia in being everywhere 

 much darker both above and below ; the black centres to the fea- 

 thers occupy practically the whole of both webs, leaving only a 

 narrow edging of pale bull' or whitish. The chestnut colouring on 

 the foreneck also extends right round the neck, auvd on to the 

 shoulders, the feathers here, of course, having black centres as in 

 true P. m. macrolopha. On the breast and abdomen tlie black runs 

 even on to the centre of these parts, though varying much in ex- 

 tent in different individuals. 



Colmirs of soft parts. -As in P.m. macrolopha. 

 Measurements. -The Xepal Koklas is a decidedly smaller bird 

 than either the Common or Kashmir form. The- wing runs from 

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