THE EARED-PHEASANTS. 



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V. harman's eared-pheasant, crossoptilon harm an I. 



Crossoptilo?i hannani, Ehves, Ibis, 188 r, p. 399, pi. xiii. ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 296 (1893). 

 Adult Male. — Like C. auri/um, but distinguished by having a 

 wide and well-tnarked white band bordering the back of the head 

 between the ear-coverts, and no white on the basal part of the 

 outer tail-feathers. The full number of tail-feathers is probably 

 tzventy-four, as in C. aurifum, for though the unique type- 

 specimen, which is in bad condition, has only nineteen feathers 

 remaining, the two middle pairs appear to be entirely wanting, 

 as well as one on the left side. 



Range. — Tibet, 150 miles east of Lhassa. 



Remarks. — Mr. H. J. Ehves says : " For this fine species I am 

 indebted to Lieut. Harman, R.E., who has displayed himself as 

 a surveyor and explorer of the Eastern Himalayas, especially in 

 Sikhim, where he has been employed for some years. When at 

 Darjeeling in December last, I saw the skin of what I at once 

 recognised as a new Crossoptilon hanging on the wall of his 

 room. Unfortunately it had never been properly preserved, 

 and was in such a terribly moth-eaten state that the remains, 

 which he kindly presented to me, and which are now in the 

 British Museum, are hardly worth preserving. They have, 

 however, proved sufficient for Mr. Keulemans to make a very 

 accurate drawing, the only fault of which is that the ear-coverts 

 do not seem in the specimen to be so strongly developed as in 

 the figure. 



"The skin was brought to Mr. Harman by one of his ' ative 

 surveyors, who said that he had procured it 150 miles east of 

 Lhassa, at an elevation of about 6,000 feet, where it was found 

 in flocks during winter. This part of Thibet has never been 

 visited by any European, or by any of the late Mr. Mandelli's 

 native hunters, and having, as reported, a much milder climate 

 and more luxuriant vegetation than the western parts of Thibet, 

 9 s 



