THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA.- 541 



MeasHi-emenis — Wiiii>-, 8-5" (215- 9 mm.); tail in moult, G-9" 

 ('175-2 mm.) ; tarsus 2-i5" (62-2 mm.) ; bill at front about -9" 

 (22-S mm.) and from gape about 1" (25-4 mm.); crest 1-45" 

 (36-8 mm.) 



Distrihution. — " Yerkalo, Upper iMekong to Central Thibet. " 



(Ogilvie-Grant.) 



The actual distribution of this Theasant is really not known. 

 Certain specimens were obtained in Verkalo and somewhere in 

 Central Thibet, and it has been also obtained on the Upper 

 ^lekong River in Yunnan, how far it extends North and East of 

 this is quite unknown. 



Nidification and General llahils. — Nothing recorded. 



PUCRASIA XANTHOSPILA .XANTHOSPILA. 



The Yelloic-necked Koldas. 



Piicrasia xanthospila. Gray, P. 'A. S. (1804). p. o'l^, pi. xx, Sanrin, ibid, 

 1866, p. 437 : Gould., B. of Asia, vii., pi. :.^4 (1869) ; Gray, Hand-L. of B. ii, 

 p. 259 (1870) ; Swinh. P.Z.S., 1871, p. 399 : id, ibid, 1872, p. 550 ; Elliot. 

 Men. Phas. 1, pi. 30(1872); Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 169;Dav. and Ous. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 407, pi. 104 (1877) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1891, p. 380 ; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii., p. 315 (1893) ; id, Haiid-Book, Game B. 1, p. 285, 

 1895. 



Pucvasia vanthospila .vanthospila . Beebe. Zoologica 1, No, 15, p. 281 

 (1914). 



Vernacular Names. — Song-ky (Chinese). 



Description, Adult Male. — Differs from macrolopha in having a 

 o-olden-buff nuchal collar extending from the chestnut foreneck 

 round the hind neck and into the extreme upper back. The feather 

 pattern of the upper plumage, though somewhat like in general 

 character, is quite different in detail. The feathers of the back and 

 upper parts have mottled gi-ey and black centres, next a broad lon- 

 gitudinal line of black and finally grey edges ; the upper tail-coverts 

 have broad grej^ centres, next following the contour of the feathers 

 consecutively lines of black, chestnut, black and finally grey. The 

 tail feathers are grey with white tips and three broad bands of black. 

 Below, this Pheasant is superficially much like macrolopha, but 

 ai'ain the distribution of the colours on the feathers is different, 

 the grey and black being arranged in the same sequence and 

 manner as on the feathers of the upper plumage. 



Colours of soft parts. — Apparently these do not differ from 

 macrolopha. 



Measurements. — Wing about 8-35" (212-lnim.); tail from 8" to 

 9" (203-2 to 228-6 mm.); tarsus 2-4" (GOO mm.) to 2-6" (66-0 mm.); 

 bill at front about -95" (24-lmm.), and from gape about M" 

 (27-9 mm.) : the spur seems to run very small in this species, in 

 several it merely consists of a blunt knob and in none does it reach 



