278 PH.VSIANID^. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Most of the upper plumage metallic. {Males^ 



A. Whole tail chestnut ; crest of spade-shaped 



metallic-green feathers. 



a. Lower back white ; undei-parts black refalyens, p. 278. 



b. Lower back gulden green, each feather edged 



with violet and purple ; underparts metallic 

 golden green, shading into dark bluish green 

 on the sides and flanks , impeyanus*, p. 280. 



B. Tail bluish green, glossed with blue and purple, 



inner and middle parts of the feathers black 

 with a row of irregular white spots on each 

 side of the shafts ; crest of ordinary elongate 

 purple feathers. (Lower back white, under- 

 parts black.) Vhuysii, p. 281. 



C. Tail chestnut, with a wdde white terminal baud 



and the basal part black, barred and irregu- 

 larly mottled with buff ; top of the head 

 covered with curly metallic-green feathers. 

 (Lower back white ; underparts black.) .... sclateri, p. 282. 



II. None of the plumage metallic. (Females.) 



D. Lower back with alternate irregular bars of 



black and rufous buff more or less parallel 



with the edge of the feathers refulgem, p. 278. 



E. Lower back white I'huysii, p. 281. 



F. Lower back pale ochraceous white finely 



mottled with dark brown sclateri, p. 282. 



1. Lophophorus refulgens. 



Lophophorus refulgens, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 355 (181.3), iii. 

 p. G73 (1815) ; Ste]jh. in Shato's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 249, pi. 15 

 (1819) ; Griff, ed. Cuv. iii. p. 14 (1829) ; Temm. PL Col. v. 

 pis. 11, 12'[nos. 608,. 513] (1830); Schinz, Nat. Ahbild. Vog. 

 p. 252, pi. 97 (1833) ; id. A'at. Vog. p. 152, pi. 74 (1853); Sclai. 

 P. Z. S. 1868, p. 1. 



Impeyanus refulgens, Less. Truite d'Orn. p. 488, pi. 85 (1831). 



Lophophorus impevauus, Gould (nee Lath.), Cent. B. Himal. pis. fiO, 

 61 (1832) ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. p. 219, pis. xxii., xxiii. (1834) ; 

 Viyne, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 6 [Cashmere & Himalava] ; Gray, Gen. B. 

 iii. p. 502 (1844) ; id. List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 30 ( 1844) ; id. Cat. 

 Hodys. ed. i. p. 125 (1846) ; Hutton, J. As. Soc. Benq. xvii. pt. 2, 

 p. 695 (1848) ; Blytli, Cat. Mn.s. As. Soc. p. 246 (1849) : Goidd, B. 

 Asia, vii. p. 53 (1850) : Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 500 [near Simla] ; 

 Mitch. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, pi. 147. fig. 2, & pi. 149. tig. 5 ; 

 Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 185 [Cashmere] ; L'by, Ibis, 1861, p. 235 

 [Kumaon] ; Jerd. B. hid. iii. p. 510 (18(33) ; Sclat. List Phas. p. 3 

 (1863) ; Fitz. Atl. Nat. 7%. fig. 229 (1864) ; Gray, List Gallina 

 Brit. Mm. p. 37 (1867); Tyiler, Ibis, 1868, pp. 191, 194, 203 

 [Simla to Mussooree] ; v. Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 320 [Koteghur] ; 

 Beavati, Ibis, 1868, p. 379 [Simla, Sikhim] : Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 

 p. 261 (1870) ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. pi. 18 (1872) ; Hume, N. <§• F. 

 Ind. B. p. 520 (1873) ; Brooks, Str. F. iii. p. 256 (1875) [Mussooree 

 and Gungaotri Hills] ; Wilson, Str. F. iv. p. 227 (1876) ; 3Iarsh. 



* The female of this species is as yet unknown. 



