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" It is generally found above 7,000 feet, but ranges lower 

 " in winter. Specimens are very difficult to obtain owing to 

 " the dense nature of the ground they keep to. There are 

 " probably large numbers of them in Dir and Kafiristan. At 

 '•' the head of the Pattison Valley their harsh cry can be con- 

 '■tinually heard in spring. It is also to be heard in the 

 " Asreth Valley. It is the call of the male that has led to the 

 " belief that the Jungle- Fowl {Gallus ferrugineus) is to be found 

 " in the country. I made a special point of trying, if possi- 

 " ble, to find the " Jungle-Fowl and have no doubt that none 

 " exist. All the camps at which the cry of the Jungle-Fowl is 

 " said to have been heard, are far above the limit of elevations 

 *' to which they are known to extend. It can easily be under- 

 " stood that the cry kok-kok-kok — kokras, or the plain kokras 

 •' has been mistaken for that of the Jungle-Fowl when heard 

 " at any distance. When, however, the call is once heard 

 " near at hand, it cannot be possibly confounded with that of 

 " Gallvs ferniriineus.'' 



PUCRASIA MEYERI. 



2Ieyeys Kolclas. 



Pucrasia mei/eri, Madarasz, Ibis, 186(3, p. 145 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. 

 M. xxii, p. 314 (1893), id, Haud-Book Game B. 1, p. 285 (1895). 



Pucrasia .ranthosjnla meyeri, Beebe, Zoologica, 1, No. 15, p. 182 (1914). 



Vernacular Names.— 1^^ one recorded. 



Description — Adult Male. — Has the upper plumage similar to that 

 of xanthosjnla, with the same single central streak of black on each 

 feather, but the tail is similar to that of macrolopha. It is said by 

 Madarasz to differ from the former bird in having the centre of the 

 breast and abdomen a more vivid chestnut ; the central tail feathers 

 fulvous with black striations, the lateral tail feathers rufescent 

 \\\t\\ white tips, and black sub-terminal bands. 



Colours of soft 'parts and measurements. — As in onacrolojiha -, with 

 more material it will probably be found that in measurements 

 meyeri will come between inaorolopha and xanthospila, the latter 

 being a decidedly smaller bird than the former. 



Adult Female. " Differs from the female of xantliospila in 

 " having the middle tail feathers fulvous vermiculated with 

 " black, and the outer tail feathers rufous, black towards the 

 " apex and tipped with M'hite." (Ogilvie-Grant.) 



From the female of wacro^oji/ia, with which the female meyeri 

 may be more reasonably compared, it differs in having both webs 

 of all the outer tail-coverts chestnut-rufous with white tips and 

 broad, well-defined sub-terminal black bands. 



Colours of soft parts. — As in macrolopha. 



