108 



PHASIANID^. 



0, p. S imm., $ 



ad. sk. 

 ?-«■ d ? ad. sk. 

 <. d ad. sk. 

 z<-w. J 2 ad. sk. 

 .r. 5 ad. sk. 

 y. $ ad. sk. 



z-^'. d ad., imm., 



et juv. sk. 

 c'. c^ iiiiin. sk. 



d', e'. c? 5imm.sk. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. 



ff'. d imm. sk. 



h', {'. c? ad. sk. 



k', I'. Skeletons. 



Kooloo, Feb., Oct. 



Kotegliur, March. 

 Kotekhaie, Feb. 

 JuUureghoul, Jan., Feb. 

 Cashmere. 



Affrhanistan ( TV. Grif- 

 fith). 

 Ladak {Capt. Sfracheij). 



Sauju Pass, Kuen Lun 

 Mts. (Dr. Belleio). 



Ferghana, March. 



Saisan, May (Finsch ^ 

 Brchm). 



Saiar Mts., Altai, .Tau. 



Tarbagatai, Saiar Mts., 

 April, Nov. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 India Museum 



P.]. 



India Museum [P.]. 



India Museum [P.]. 



Henry Seebohra, Esq.[P.]. 

 Geographical Society of 



Bremen. 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.], 

 St. Petersburg Museum 



[E.]. 



4. Tetraogallus caspius. 



Tetrao caspius, Gm. ReUe, iv. p. G7, pi. 10 (1784) ; id. S. N. i. pt. ii. 



p. 762 (1788). 

 Perdix caspia. Lath. hid. Orn. ii. p. 65o (1790); Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. XXV. p. 228 (1817). 

 Caspian Partridge, Lath. Gen. Syn. Stippl. ii. p. 283 (1802) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 290 (182.3). 

 Lophophorus nio-elii, Jard. Sc Se^j. 111. Orn. pi. 76 {nee iid. op. cit. 



pi. 141) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 10.5. 

 Perdix (Megaloperdix) nigelli, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. iii. 



p. 188 (1845). 

 Tetraogallus caspius, G<mld, B. Asia, vii. pi. 29 ("text part.] (1853) ; 



Sclat. 4- Wolf, Zool. Sh-et. (1) pi. 40 (1861) ; Ay//, et Gerbe, Orn. 



JEurop. ii. p. 55 (1867) ; Grai/, Lid Gallince Brit' Mm. p. 82 (1867) 



[part.] ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p.' 275 (1870) ; Blanf. E. Pers.W. p. 275 



(187G)[Elburz, Kurdistan, and higher ranges near Shiraz] •,Danford, 



Ihis, 1877, p. 254, 1878, p. 29, 1880, p. 91 [Gok Mts., S.'Asia 



Minor, Taurus, Ai'menia, Kurdistan]; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 27. 

 Tetraogallus caucasicus, De Filippi (nee Pall.), Viagg. Pers. i. p. 351 



(1865). 

 Megaloperdix (Tetraogallus) caspia, Bolle c^- Brehm, J.f. O. 1873, 



p. 1. 

 Megaloperdix raddei, Bolle S^- Brehm, J.f. O. 1873, p. 4. 

 Tetraogallus challayei, Oustal. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1875, p. 54 ; id. 



Joiirn. de Vlnst. 1875, p. 353 [Erzeroom]. 

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

 Tetraogallus tauricus. Dresser, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 675. 

 Megaloperdix caspia, Bogd. B. Caucus, p. 142 (1879); id. Consp. Av. 



Imp. Boss. fasc. i. p. 39 (1884) ; Radde, Orn. Caucas. p. 343, 



pi. xxii. ( 1884) [Caucasus] ; Zaroiidn. Bull. Mosc. (n. s.) iii. p. 110 

 (1890) [Transcaspia]. 

 Megaloperdix sp., Radde Sj- Walt. Ornis, 1889, p. 85. 



Adult male. Differs from T. himalaycnsis in its paler colour gene- 

 rally, the absence of chestnut on the nape and sides of the head, and 

 iu having the cheeks pale grey, shading into darker on the band 

 which margins the sides of the throat and fore part of the neck ; the 



