THE (iAMF. ninns of INDIA. .04.3 



riiHYsoLornrs amfieksti.?-:. 



]'/if(!<ianux amfier!<ti(r, Leadbeater, Trans. Linn. Soc, xvi., p. 129, pi. l-O 

 <1S28); Blyth. Cat. Mns. As. Soc, p. iMG (1849). 



rhaumalea amheraticp, Wagler, IbIb. 183L', p. 1*228; Gray, Genera Birds, 

 iii., p. 497, pi. cxxv (184o) ; Sclater, List Thas., p. •'">, pi. 3 (186.3); Swinh., 

 P. Z. S., 1863, p. 307. 



Gould., B. Asia, vii., pi. 20 (1866) ; Sclater, P.Z.S., 1870, pp. 128 and 670 

 (Vun-ling Mts.) ; Id, Ibis, 1S70, p. 297 (Tachicnlu) ; Swinhoe, P.Z.S., 1870 

 p. Ill : Elliot, Monog. Phas., ii., p. xx., ])1. xiv. (1S72); Sclater, Ibis, 1874 

 p. 169; David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 41.'), pi. 108(1877); (W. Sze 

 chuen, Yunnan. Quei-chow. K. Tibet) ; Anders., W. Yunnan, p, 671 (1878), 

 (Yunnar Frontier); Seeb., Ibis. 1891, p. .380 (W. Sze-chuen); Bailey, Joum. 

 B. X. H. S.. xxii., p. 367 (1913) (Tachienlu ). 



C/in/.<olophii.'' am/ifirsticj, Gray, List. Gallinaj Brit. Mns., p. .30 (1867) ; 

 Swinh'., P.Z.S., 1871, p. 398 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M., xxii., p. .342 

 (1893) ; id Hand-L. Game B., ii., p. 46 (1896) ; Seth-Smith, Avicult. Mag., 

 iv., p. 142 (1898) ; Gates, Man. Game B., ii., p. 497 (1899) (Myitkyna) ; 

 O.Tilvie-Graut, Ibis, 1900, p. 606 (Chen-chi) ; Davies, Ibis, 1901, p. 408 

 (\V. Yunnan and Kweichow) ; Gates, Cat. Eggs, B. M., 1, p. .'59, pi. vi., fig. 

 6(1901); Finn., Avicult. Mag. (new ser.) iii.. p. 102 (190-')); Comber, 

 Journ. B. N. H. S., xvi, pp. .>12, o30 and 7-53 (Sadon 9,000 ft.) Harington, 

 Journ. B. N. H. S., xix., p. 309 (1909). 



Vernacular I^ames. — Ja (Tibet an) ; Sen-ohi (Chinese);? Woo- 

 clivee (Burmese, I'^han l^taies). 



Description, — Adult Male. — Occipital crest of hair-like feathers, 

 blood crimson ; feathers from the back of the head and behind the 

 ear-coverts falling in a broad cape over the back scapulars and 

 shoTilders of the wing, pure white with edges of velvety black, 

 a'lossed with steel bine, and the lono'est with a second bar of the 

 •same about |" from the tip ; remainder of head, neck, throat, upper 

 breast and mantle bi-illiant peacock gi-een, the feathers of the breast 

 and mantle sub-bordered with black and with tiny scintillating 

 •edges of emerald green ; lower back and rump brilliant golden bufi', 

 each feather with a broad band of metallic dark blue-green, which 

 shows up here arjd there, and with a hidden black bas*^ ; upper 

 tail-coverts black and white, the central and some of the lateral 

 ones with flame-coloured tips ; the longest tail-coverts fall in pairs 

 ■on either side of the true tail feathers, making them look as if 

 tasselled with orano;e sold. Central tail feathers white with bars 

 of metallic blue-black, and with irregular broken bars of dead black, 

 more or less at right angles to those on the white interspaces ; outer 

 tail feathers mottled black and white on the inner webs, white on 

 the outer webs with regular bars of blue-black, and Avith broken 

 black edges ; the white next the edge changes to a dull buft- 

 brown. 



Wings : primaries brown, the outer edges white over all but the 

 last inch or so, outer secondaries brown, the outermost only edged 

 with white ; inner secondaries, coverts and whole visible portion of 

 wing deep steel-blue, each feather edged with velvet black. 



