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PHASIANID^. 



II. General colour above olive- or reddish brown. 

 (Ihnales*.) 

 y. Scapulars and wing-coverts without triangu- 

 lar buff spots. 

 A. Feathers of the breast and underparts 

 either margined with white or buff, or 

 with white or buff shaft-stripes, or with 

 both characters combined. 

 (I. Sides of the neck without triangular 

 white shaft-spots; mantle without 

 wliite V-shaped shaft-stripe.«(. 

 a'. Outer tail-feathers black. 



a". Uudei-parts with white shafts, but 

 never pale shaft-stripes. 

 a'". Underparts light reddish brown, albocristatus, -p. 298. 

 b'". Underparts dark reddish brown , i,,,,^,„,i 300. 



or dark brown ... midhura, p. 301. 



b . Underparts usually with narrow ' ' ^ 



buff shaft-stripes horsfieldi, p. 302. 



b'. Outer tail-feathers washed with chest- 

 nut towards the base cuvieri, p. 303. 



c'. Outer tail-feathers chestnut; under- 

 parts with buff shaft-stripes oatesi, p. 306. 



h. Sides of the neck with triangular white 

 shaft-spots ; mantle with white V- 

 shaped shaft-stripes ; outer tail- 

 feathers reddish brown, with irregular 

 white black-edged bars. 

 d'. Underparts with narrower pointed 

 white shaft-stripes; outer webs of 

 the secondaries mottled with buff 

 and black along the margin only . . lineatus, p. 304. 

 «'. Underparts with wider pointed white 

 shaft-stripes ; outer webs of the 

 secondaries with irregular oblique 

 buff bars reaching to the shaft. . . . andersoni, p. 306. 

 B. Feathers of the breast and underparts 

 without either pale margins or shaft- 

 stripes ; sides of the neck and mantle 

 without any white shaft-marks ; outer 

 tail-feathers black, with irregular oblique 



white lines ni/cthemerus, p. 307. 



8. Scapulars and wing-coverts each with a sub- 

 terminal triangular yellowish-buff spot 

 widely edged with black ; inner webs of 

 the primaries with wide alternate bars of 

 chestnut and black swinhoii, p. 309. 



1. Gennseus albocristatus. 



Phasianus albocristatus, Tig. P. Z. S. 1830, p. 9, & 1832, p. 16 ; id. 

 Phil. Maq. 1831, p. 60 ; Goidd, Cent. B. Himal. pis. 66, 67 [text] 

 (1832) ; 'Vigne, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 6 [Alpine Punjab]. 



Gennaeus albocristatus, Wugl. Isis, 1832, p. 1228. 



Phasianus hamiltonii, Gray, in Griff, ed. Cuv. iii. p. 27 (1829) ; id. 

 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 41 (1830-32). 



Euplocomu8leucomelanos,(?/'«y, iis<()/i?. pt. iii. p. 25 (1844) [part.]. 



* The female of G. davisoni is at present unknown. 



