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PHASIANID^. 



Adult male and female. Forehead rufous ; top of the head umbre- 

 browii ; neck whitish grey with narrow black bars ; back, rump, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts a mixture of chestnut and brown, barred 

 with buif and mostly with white shafts, some of the scapulars with 

 the ground-colour of the inner web blackish brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts brown barred with buff; primaries and secondaries brownish 

 grey, the basal part of the outer web of the outer primaries and 

 nearly the whole of the outer web of the inner primaries and second- 

 aries barred and mottled with rufous. Superciliary stripe and cheeks 

 rufous buff; ear- coverts chestnut-brown ; lores whitish; a band of 

 feathers from the gape to the back of the eye edged with black ; 

 centre of chin and throat rufous buff, margined all round by first 

 an indistinct black and then a pale buff band, the black band 

 forming a patch at the base of the throat ; chest a mixture of buff 

 and rufous, with narrow somewhat irregular blackish bars ; rest of 

 the uuderparts pale buff, with irregular wavy transverse lines of 

 black, some of the feathers on the sides spotted with chestnut; 

 centre of belly often imiform buff ; centre pair of tail-feathers like 

 the upper tail-coverts, outer pairs chestnut, shading into black 

 towards the extremity, and tipped with greyisli buff: iris dark 

 brown ; bill horny brown, pale flesh below ; legs and feet dull red. 

 A sharp pair of spurs in the male. Total length 12-5 inches, wing 

 5"8, tail 3-5, tarsus 1*6. 



The immature males and females differ only from the adult in 

 having the throat white, the upper part of the outer webs of the 

 outer primaries marked with buff, and no spurs. 



Hah. India, Ceylon, Afghanistan, lialuchistan, >S. Persia, and 

 Arabia. Amirantes and Mascarenhas Is. (introduced). 



a. c? imm. sk. 

 b-g. S ? ad. sk. 

 h, i. (S ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 j. 2 ad. sk. 

 k. 5 ^'d. sk. 



/. ? ad. sk. 

 m. S ad. sk. 

 n. (S ad. sk. 

 o-q. S ? ad. sk. 

 r. 2 ad. sk. 

 s-x. (S 2 ad., imm., 



et pull. sk. 

 y. 2 ad. sk. 

 "--/'. 6 $ ad. sk. 



[I'y ^i'- 6 2 ad. sk. 



i-1! . S ? ad. sk. 

 on' . 2 ad. sk. 



n , (>'. 2 ad. sk. 



Muscat. 



Afghanistan {W. Griffith). 



Siodh. 



Karachi, Jan. {E. A. Butler). 

 Meliur, Upper Sindh, Jan. 



(A. O. H.). 

 Sukkur, Dec. (.4. O. H.). 

 Sehwan Hills, Jan. {A. O. II.). 

 Kattiawar, May. 

 Jodhpur, Jan., Feb. 

 Ajmere, Jan. 

 Sambhur, April, May, June, 



Dec. (J?. M. Adam). 

 Murdan, Feb. (/. R. Johnsim). 

 Gurgaon Dist., Jan., Feb., 



March, Aug. {A. O. H.^- W. 



N. Chill). 

 Bewur, Mynpuree Dist., Jan. 



(A. Anderson). 

 Oudh, Nov., Dec, Jan. 

 Itahunabad, Luckuow Dist., 



Nov. (G. Reid). 

 Nepal. 



Col. Mills [P.]. 

 India Museum [P.]. 

 Gould CoU. 



Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Capt. Lloyd [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Plume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



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