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d. Lores and forehead brownish. 



c'. Throat brownish ; breast pale greyish brown, 



finely vermiculated all over with brownish 



black geoffroyi, p. 269. 



d'. Throat dirty grey ; breast pale brownish biift", 



with scarcely a trace of dark vermiculations . sinensis, p. 270. 



1. Ithagenes cruentus. 



Phasianus cruentus, Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 237 (1822) 



[Nepal HHls]. 

 Sanguine Pheasant, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 205 (1823j. 

 Perdix cruenta, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 31 [no. 332] (182o) ; Less. 



Traite d'Orn. p. 504 (1831). 

 Phasianus gardneri, Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 167 (1827) 



[Valley of Nepal]. 

 Lophophorus gardneri, Less. Man. WOrn. ii. p. 180 (1828). 

 Phasianus cruentatus, Gray, in Grijf. ed. Cuu. iii. p. 47 (1829). 

 Perdix gardneri, Gray, in Griff, ed. Cuv. iii. p. 47 (1829). 

 Ithaginis cruentus, War/l. Isis, 1832, p. 1228; Gray, List of B. 



pt. iii. Gall. p. 31 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 504 (1846) ; Blyth, 



Cat. Mas. As. Soc. p. 241 (1849); Gould, B. As. vii. p. 43 (1851) ; 



Jerd. B. Lnd. iii. p. 522 (1863) ; Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 46 



(1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 264 (1870) ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. 



pi. 30 (1872) ; Hmne ^- Marsh. Game B. Lnd. i. p. 155, pi. (1878) ; 



Sadly, Str. F. viii. p. 343 (1879) [Nepal]. 

 Perdix cruentatus, Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. p. 112, pi. vii. (1834). 

 Ithaginis cruentatus, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; 



Gray, Cat. Hodgs. ed. i. p. 126 (1846). 



Adult male. Lores and forehead black, top of the head buff or 

 rufous buff; nape and mantle grey, each feather with a white 

 shaft-stripe ; lower back, rump, scapulars, lesser and shorter 

 median wing-coverts the same, but the shafr-stripes are washed 

 with green and edged with black ; longer median wing-coverts have 

 in addition the whole of the terminal half washed with green; 

 upper tail-coverts widely margined with crimson. QuiUs and their 

 coverts dark brown, each with narrow white shafts, somewhat 

 dilated towards the extremity of the feather ; the secondaries are 

 narrowly margined on the outer web with whitish buff. Feathers 

 enclosing the bare space round the eye mostly black, in some 

 specimens partially margined with crimson ; ear-coverts and sides 

 of the neck white, edged with black ; chin, throat, and cheeks 

 crimson ; fore part of the neck greenish white, edged with black ; 

 chest and breast * pale green, usually some of the feathers edged 

 with crimson ; belly and sides darker, the feathers of the latter with 

 rather marked paler green shaft-stripes; flanks like the lower back; 

 under tail-coverts crimson, tipped with greenish white. Tail- 

 feathers white at the tip, shading into dusky brown towards the 



* In specimens from Nepal the feathers of the chest and upper breast have 

 the sides widely margined with crimsoii ; this is also more or less well marked 

 in those from Native Sikhim ; but iu birds from Sikhim and Darjeeling these 

 crimson marks are only present on a few feathers, and often entirely absent. 



