27. Loi'HOPnouTJs. 279 



B. Nest. Ind. p. 59 (1877) ; Hume <^ Marsh. Game B. Ind. i. 

 p. 125, pi. (1878); Scully, Sir. F. viii. p. 342 (1879) [Nepali; 

 Fuirbrotk. IStr. F. ix. p. 203 (1880) [Kurrum, Af<,'haiii,stan] ; 

 M'urdl.-Iiams. Ilm, 1880, p. 70 [E. Afglianistan] ; Gates, ed. 

 Hume'.i JS'ests <^- Fi/i/s, iii. p. 407 (1890). 

 Lophophorus irupeyauus, v. refulgeos, Hudys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 

 p. 85 (1844). 



Adult male. Top and sides of the head, crest of spade-shaped 

 feathers, and a patch of feathers hetwten the sides of the breast 

 and mantle metallic green shot v\ith blue and purple ; back and 

 sides of the neck purple, shading into reddish copper and glossed 

 with golden green ; mantle shining golden green ; outer wing- 

 coverts metallic bluish green ; inner wing-coverts and scapulars, 

 rump and shorter upper tail-coverts bronze-crimson in some lights 

 and purple edged with metallic bluish green in others ; longer 

 upper tail-coverts golden green ; lower back snow-white ; quills 

 and bastard-wing brownish black ; throat blackish, slightly glossed 

 with golden green ; rest of the underparts black ; tail pale rufous, 

 darker towards the extremity. Eill black, cutting-edges of the 

 mandildes pale horny ; orbital skin bright blue ; legs and feet dusky 

 greenish or pale yellowish green. Total length 26 inches, wing 

 ir6, tail 9, tarsus 3'2. 



InuiKdure males resemble the females, but the chin and throat 

 are usually more or less suffused with blaek, the markings on the 

 underparts are coarser, and the whitish-buff shaft-stripes on the 

 feathers are wider. In several cases at least some of the adult 

 feathers appear to be obtained by a change of pattern without a 

 moult. 



Allah female. Feathers of the top of the head, short crest, neck, 

 mantle, and rump black, buff down the middle and often, especially on 

 the mantle, with an irregular black shaft-stripe or a black stripe on 

 each side of the shaft meeting one another anteriorly : wing-coverts 

 and scapulars the same, but the black lines in the buff centre part 

 are still more irregular and broken up into bars and mottlings ; 

 feathers of the lower back alternately barred with irregular black 

 and bulf, the bars more or less parallel to the edge of the feather ; 

 upper tail-coverts black barred with buff, the longer ones tipped 

 with white freckled with black ; quills blackish brown, the 

 primaries slightly mottled with buff on the margin of the outer 

 web, and the secondaries on both are margined at the tips with 

 whitish bulf. Sides of the head reddish huff mottled with black ; 

 chin and tliroat white ; feathers of chest and sides of breast like 

 the mantle ; rest of underparts mottled with black and buff and 

 with more or less distinct white shaft-strijies. Tail black barred 

 with rufous, and margined at the extremity with white, the black 

 parts of the middle pair of feathers being mottled, especially towards 

 tho margins, with buff. Total length 26 inches, wing 10"5, tail 7*5, 

 tarsus 2"t). 



Hah. Elevated forests of the Himalayas from Eastern Afghanistan 

 to Western Bhootan. 



