100 PHASIANID^. 



/". 1st primary shorter than the 10th 

 (sexes similar, or different ; claws 



moderate) 58. Odontophohus, 



d. Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw [p. 430. 



(1st primary falls between the 8th and 



9th ; tail of 10 feathers) 59. Rhynchoetyx, 



[p. 443. 



1. LERWA. 



Type. 

 Lerwa, Hoclgs. Madr. J. v. p. 300 (1837) ; id. J. As. Soc. 



Beng. xxiv. p. 580 (1855) L. lerwa. 



Tetraoperdix, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; 



id. J. As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. p. 580 (1855) L. lerwa. 



Tetraonoperdix, Agass. Index Univers. p. 3G6 (1846) . . L. lerwa. 



Lerva, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 248 (1849) L. lerwa. 



Sexes similar. 



Tail with 14 feathers, about ^ of the length of the wing, rounded, 

 the outer pair | of an inch shorter than the middle pair : all similarly 

 coloured. 



The 1st primary equal to the 3rd, and only slightly shorter than 

 the 2nd and longest. 



Tarsus feathered for half its length, rather shorter than the middle 

 toe and claw, armed in the male with a stout blunt spur. 



Range. Himalayas to Western China. 



1. Lerwa lerwa. 



Perdix lerwa, Hod(is. P. Z. S. 1833, p. 107 [Nepal]; Grng, III. Ind. 



Zool. ii. pi. 44. fig. 1 (1834). 

 Lerwa nivicola, Hodqs. Madr. J. 1837, p. 301 ; Gray, Gen. B. p. 61 



(1840) ; id. Li.'^i of B. pt. ii. Gall. p. 36 (1844) ; id. Vat. Hodqs. 



ed. i. p. 127 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 508 (1846) ; Gould, B. Asia, 



Ti. pi. 75 (1855) ; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 555 (1863) ; Gray, List Gal- 



linm Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1867) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 382 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 274 (1870) ; Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 400 [Moupin] ; 



Hume, Nests ^ Eqgs Ind. B. p. 536 (1873) ; David ^ Oustalet, Ois. 



Chine, p. 392 (187*7) ; Hume S^- Marsh. Game B. Ind. ii. p. 1, pi. 



(1879) ; Marshall, litis, 1SS4, p. 42:5 [Ohamba] ; Gates, ed. Hume's 



Nests ^ J^ggs Ind. B. iii. p. 42s (1890) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1891, p. 380 



lW. Sze-chuen]. 

 Tetraoperdix (Lerwa) nivicola, Hodgs. in Gi-ay's Zool. Misc. p. 85 



(1844)5 Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. nos. 108, 109. 

 Lerva nivicola, ^c^ams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 501, 1859, p. 186 [High 



ranges of Cashmere and LadakJ ; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vii. 



p. 11, no. 360 (1871). 

 Lerwa lerwa, Ilartert, Kat. 3Ius. Senckenb. p. 195 (1891). 



Adult male and female. Head, neck, and the whole of the upper 

 parts black, with narrow cross bars of white, except on the upper 

 back and wing-coverts, where they are buff or rufous. The outer 

 secondaries, scapulars, and some of the outer secondary coverts are 

 dark rufous towards the extremity, mixed here and there with bufP 

 and barred and mottled with black. Primaries, primary-coverts, 

 and bastard wing dark brown ; the inner primaries narrowly 

 tipped and often dotted on the margin of the outer web with 



