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PHASIANIDiE. 



2. Tetraogallus henrici. 



Tetraogallus henrici, Ousted. Ann. Set. Nat. (7) xii. pp. 295, 313 

 (1801) [Ta-tsieu-loul. 



Adult male. Differs from the male of T. iibetanus in having the 

 colour of the throat and chest grey, with only a narrow white 

 band down the middle of the chin and upper half of the throat, 

 and the upper tail-coverts yellowish grey, not rufous. Total length 

 ca. 26-4 inches, wing 11, tail 7'2, tarsus 2-2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. 



Hab. Ta-tsien-lou, W. Sze-chuen, China. 



3. Tetraogallus himalayensis. 



Lophophorus nigellii, Jard. ^- 8elb. III. Om. pi. 141 (nee iid. op. cit. 

 pi. 70j. 



Tetraogallus nigellii, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 46 (1834) ; Viffne, 

 P. Z. S. 1841, p. 6 [Cashmere and Little Thibet] ; Hodys. in 

 Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844); Icon, iiied. in Brit. Mas. no. 781. 



Tetraogallus himalayaniis. Gray, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 105 [Himalayas]; 

 w7. List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 30 (1844) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 30 

 [te.\t] (18o3j ; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 501, 1859, p. 186 [Cash- 

 mere and Ladak] ; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 549 (1863) ; Gray, List 

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

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 275 (1870); Ilend. ^- Hume, Lahore to Yark. 

 p. 280 (1873) [Sanju Pass]; Hume, Nests i^ B. Ind. B. p. 535 

 (1873); Scully, Sfr. F. iv. p. 181 (1876) [Hills of Yarkand] ; 

 Hume ^ Marsh. Game B. Ind. i. p. 267, pi. (1878) ; Finsch, Verh. 

 Ges. Wien, xxix. p. 237 (1880) [Saisan] ; Biddulph, Str. F. ix. 

 p. 358 (1880) [Gilgit]; Sculli/, Str. F. x. p. 138 (1881) [E. Tur- 

 kestan]; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 93 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 586 

 [GilgitJ ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 425 [Samarkand] ; Severtz. Ibis, 



1883, p. 72 [Pamir, Alai, and Tian-shan Mts.] : Marshall, Ibis, 



1884, p. 423 [Chamba] ; Scully, M. S^ B. N. Afyhan. p. 86 (1887) 

 [Hindu Kush] ; Gates, ed. Hume's Nests i^ E. Ind. B. iii. p. 46 

 (1890) ; Sharpe, Second Yark. Miss. p. 123, pi. xv. (1891). 



Tetraogallus caucasicus. Gray (nee Pall.), Cat. Hodgs. ed. 1, p. 126 



(1846); Bree, B. Eur. iii. p. 232, pi. (1867); Fritsch, Nat. Vog. 



Europa, p. 282 (1870), pi. 31. fig. 7 (1871). 

 Megaloperdix nigellii, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotnie, p. 68 (1873) ; id. 



J.f O. 1875, p. 181. 

 Megaloperdix nigellii, ^ minor, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotnie, p. 68 



(1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 323. 

 Oreotetrax himalayensis, Radde, J. f. O. 1876, p. 217. 

 Tetraogallus caspius, Dresser [nee Gmel.), Ibis, 1876, p. 322. 

 Megaloperdix himalayensis, Boyd. Consp. A v. Imp. Boss. fasc. i. p. 39 



(1881); Pleske, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (7) xxxvi. no. 3, p. 47 



(1888) [Kuli Kalau, Turkestan]. 



Adult male. Top of the head and upper part of the mantle pale 

 grey tinged with buff ; a large chestnut patch on either side of the 

 nape, produced along the sides of the head as far as the eye ; rest of 

 the upper parts blackish grey, finely vcrmiculated with buff, the 

 feathers of the lower back, rump, lesser, median, and secondary 

 coverts and the scapulars edged on either side with jjuff, washed 



