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PHASIANID^. 



Key to the Species. 



I. No white on the basal half of the primary 



quills. 



A. Chest white, divided from the breast by 



a grey band tibetanus c? & 5 > P- 10-1. 



B. Chest o-rey henrici (^ Si. $ , p. 106. 



II. Basal half of the primary quills more or 



less white. 



C. Feathers of the sides and flanks edged 



with buff, rufous, and black. 

 a. Secondaries with only traces of white 

 near the base of the shaft. (Chest- 

 feathers white, with wide subter- [p. 106. 



minal black bars.) himalayensis c5' & $ , 



h. Secondaries with the basil half more 

 or less white. 

 a'. Chest-feathers grey, with a black 



spot on the margin of both webs . caspius c? , p. 108. 

 b' . Chest-feathers grey, vermiculated 

 with buff, and here and there a 



black spot caspius ^ , p. 108. 



c'. Chest - feathers black, margined, 

 barred, and vermiculated with 

 buff caitcasicus cJ & $ , p. 100. 



D. Feathers of the sides and flanks uniform 



white altaicus cJ & $' , p. 110. 



1. Tetraogallus tibetanus. 



Tetraogallus tibetanus, Gould, P. Z. S. 185.3, p. 47 [Thibet] ; id. B. 

 Asia, yii. pi. 2,2 [text] (18-">3) ; Jerd. B. hid. iii. p. 5.54''(lb63) ; 

 Gray, List GallincB Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 275 

 (1870) ; Hend. ^- Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 281 (1873) ; Hcidly, 

 Sir. F.'w. -p. IS2 (187G) [Sanju Pass, E. Turkestan]; David ^ 

 Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 391 (1877) [JMoupin] ; Prjev. Mongolia, 

 ii. p. 127 (1876); id. in Boivlet/s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 427 (1877) 

 [Kansu, S. Koko-nor and N. Tibet] ; Hume ^- Maish. Game B. 

 Lnd. 1. p. 275, pi. (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 430 (1878) ; iiharjye, 

 Second Yark. Miss.,Aves, p. 123 (1891). 



Oreotetrax tibetana, Radde, J.f. O. 1876, p. 218. 



Adult male mid female. Top of the head, nape, and upper part of 

 the mantle dark grey, shading into buft' and greyish buff' on the lower 

 parts, and closely vermiculated with fine blackish lines. Feathers 

 of the lower back the same, onl}- margined on the sides with 

 buff; rump and upper tail-coverts pale rufous, with the black 

 vermiculations much farther apart. Lesser, median, and secondary 

 coverts, scapulars, and outer secondaries blackish grey, finely ver- 

 miculated with buff, and widely margined with creamy white, the 

 former only on the sides, the latter all round their margins. Pri- 

 maries and primary-coverts dull greyish brown, the former tipped 

 with creamy white, most strongly marked on the innermost feathers. 

 Rest of the secondaries like the primaries, but with the last part of 

 the outer web white. Lores and ear-coverts white. Sides of the 



