194 PHASIANID^. 



[Hanlee, Thibet] ; Gray, List Gallince Brii. Mus. p. 57 (1867) ; 



Hume, Nests Sf E. Ind. B. p. 544 (1873) ; Cock ^ Marsh. Str. F. 



i. p. 349 (1873) ; Hu7ne, Str. F. vii. p. 432 (1878) ; mime S,- 



Marsh. Game B. Ind. ii. p. Go, pi. (1879) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests 



4- F. Ind. B. iii. p. 438 (1890) [Ooug Lung La Pass, between 



Indus and Pangong Valleys]. 

 Perdix hodgsonii, Adams, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 503 [N. of Mussooree] ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 575 (1863). 

 Perdix (Sacfa) hodgsonise, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 267 (1870). 



Adult male and female. A narrow black band across the front of 

 the forehead between the nostrils, followed by a wider white band 

 edged with black ; crown and sides of the head chestnut ; rest of 

 the back of the head and nape a mixture of black and rufous buflf, 

 with a triangular whitish spot at the extremity of each feather ; 

 back and sides of the neck with a wide rufous-chestnut collar fringed 

 in freshly-moulted specimens with whitish : mantle grey, shading 

 into brownish grey on the lower back, rump, and shorter upper 

 tail-coverts ; all are barred transversely with black, and the feathers 

 have usually a bar or two of buff more or less mixed with chestnut 

 near the extremity ; the wings, scapulars, and coverts resemble 

 those of P. perdiv, but the markings are brighter and more strongly 

 defined, and the inner webs of the longer scapulars and outer 

 secondaries are rich golden buff ; the lores and fore part of the 

 cheeks white, margined with black and separated from the bill by a 

 narrow black line of feathers. A white patch of feathers beneath the 

 eye edged below with black. Ear-coverts black, with pale shafts 

 and chestnut bases. A large black patch on the hinder part of the 

 cheek and side of the throat. Chin, middle of the throat, and a 

 band round the fore part of the neck white, the latter bounded below 

 by a narrow black band ; feathers on the sides of the chin and 

 throat elongate, with black shafts, hot less developed than in P. dau- 

 rica. Chest, breast, and belly white with a subterminal black bar, 

 except a large patch of feathers in the middle of the breast, which 

 are black, widely margined with white (this patch is almost hidden 

 in freshly-moulted birds, but is strongly marked in worn specimens). 

 Sides and flanks rufous buff, with a wide subterminal chestnut band 

 and a whitish patch and black wavy lines at the extremity of each 

 feather. Rest of the underparts whitish or buff, with irregular 

 wavy black lines and marks. Tail and longer tail-coverts as in 

 P. daiirica, but the subterminal bars on the latter are usually black 

 instead of chestnut. Naked skin round the eye and on the cheek 

 red. Bill and legs horn-green. 



Male. Total length 11-5 inches, wing 6-2, tail 3-6, tarsus 1-7. 



Female. Total length 11 inches, wing 6-1, tail 3-6, tarsus 1-65. 



In a younger specimen the crown and back of the head are 

 blackish, with buff shaft-stripes ; the back and sides of the neck 

 and the mantle are brownish buff, marked and barred with black, 

 and with whitish-buff shaft-stripes edged with black. The chestnut 

 collar and the black patches on the hinder parts of the cheeks are 

 just beginning to appear ; otherwise the plumage is nearly similar 

 to that of the adult. 



