THE KOKLASS PHEASANTS. 28 1 



A. Basal part of the outer tail-feathers mostly Mack or black 

 and chestnut^ never grey. 



I. THE COMMON KOKLASS PHEASANT. PUCRASIA 

 MACROLOPHA. 



Satyra niacrolopha, Less. Diet. Sei. Nat. lix. p. 196 (1829). 

 Phasianus pucrasia^ J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 40 (1830- 



32); Gould, Cent. B. Himal. pis. 69, 70 (1832). 

 Pucrasia inacrolopha^ G. R. Gray, List Gall. Brit. Mus. p. 31 



(1844); Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 26 (1854); Elliot, Monogr. 



Phasian. i. pi. 28 (1872); Hume and Marshall, Game 



Birds of India, i. p. 159, pi. (1878); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 311 (1893). 



{Plate XXI.) 

 Adult Male. — A long buff occipital crest ; a large white patch 

 on each side of the neck ; rest of head and neck black, glossed 

 with dark green, the feathers behind the ear-coverts being enor- 

 mously elongate and longer than the crest ; general colour of 

 the upper-parts and sides grey, brownish on the wings, most of 

 the feathers with black shaft-stripes ; middle of the chest and 

 under-parts dark chestnut ; outer tailfeathers blacky shading into 

 rufous on the basal half of the outer zveb^ and tipped with white. 

 Total length, 23 inches; wing, 9*4; tail, 9*5; tarsus, 2'6. 



Adult Female. — General colour above black, including a 

 short crest, mottled with sandy-buff, most of the feathers with 

 well-marked pale reddish-buff shaft-stripes ; chin and throat 

 whitish ; under-parts pale rufous, edged and mottled on the 

 breast and sides with black; outer tail-feathers mostly blacky 

 chestnut towards the base, and tipped with white. Total 

 length, i9"6 inches; wing, 87; tail, 7*0; tarsus, 2*2. 



Range. — Forests of the Western Himalayas from Kumaon to 

 Chamba. 

 Habits.— Wilson says of the Koklass : 



*' This is another forest Pheasant common to the whole of 

 the wooded regions, from an elevation of about 4,000 feet to 



