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Euploconius leucomelas, Iludys. in G'raifs Zool. 3fhc. p. 85 (1844) 

 [part, no. 80 J ] ; id. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mas., Gall. pi. 14. no. 80 2 ■ 



Eiii)l()r'i}nuis albocristuttis, Uutton, J. As. Soc. Bom), xvii. pt. 2, p. 693 

 {lf<48) ; Blyth, Cat. Mtt^. As. Soc. p. 244 (1840J; Irdi/, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 2;io [Kuumon]. 



Euplocamiis albocristatus, Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 499 [Simla, 

 Cashmere] ; Sclat. Lid of Phas, p. 9 (1863) ; Gray, List Galliiue 

 Brit. Mm. p. 32 (1867) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 260"(1870) ; LUioi, 

 Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 18 (1872) [svn. part.] ; Hume ^.V ImiUs, Str. F. v. 

 p. 42 (1^77) ; lEume i^ Marsh. Game B. hid. i. p. 177, pi. (1878) ; 

 Marsh. Ibi.s, 1884, p. 423 [Gbauiba] ; Oates, cd. Hume's Nests Si- 

 JSff!/.", iii. p. 413 (1890). 



Gallophasis albocristatus, Mitch. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, pi. 148. fig. 1, 

 & pi. 149. fig. 3 ; Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 186; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. 

 p. 532 (1863) [part.] ; lilyth, Ibis, 18(i7, p. 153 ; Ti/t/er. Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 203 [Simla to iMussoori'e] ; v. Pelz. P/is, 1868, p. 321 [Koteghur] ; 

 Beavan, Ibis, 18G«, p. 380 [Simla] ; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 60 [Naini 

 Tal, Almorah] ; Ilnme, N. ^ E. Ind. B. p. 526 (1873) ; Marsh. 

 B. Nest. Ind. p. 59 (1877). 



Adult male. A long hairy white crest ; forehead, sides and back 

 of tlie head and neck, mantle and wing-coverts, and upper tail- 

 coverts black, glossed with purplish and steel-blue ; feathers of the 

 mantle and upper tail-coverts also narrowly margined with dirty 

 white ; lower back and rump the same, but with a wide white 

 terminal band ; primaries brown ; secondaries darker, and slightly 

 glossed with greenish blue on the outer web ; chin and throat 

 black ; fore part of neck dirty white, gradually shading into brown 

 on the belly and rest of the underparts. Tail black, glossed with 

 ])urplish blue. Naked facial skin scarlet. Bill greenish white ; 

 legs and feet livid white tinged with brown. Total length 

 25 inches, wing 9"3, tail 11, tarsus 3. 



Immature males have the edges of the longer upper tail-coverts 

 finely mottled instead of margined with white ; the spurs, too, are 

 small or absent. 



A venj yountj specimen has the plumage of the upper parts like 

 that of the female, but darker, and most of the feathers of the 

 mantle and wing-coverts have a wide subtcrmiaal black bund ; the 

 underparts are brownish white. 



Adult female. A long brownish-grey hairy crest; whole plumage 

 reddish brown, redder on the rump, upper tail-coverts, chest, and 

 rest of the underparts ; feathers of the upper parts finely vermi- 

 culated with blackish and edged with grey, except those of the 

 wing-coverts and underparts, where the margins are white ; chin, 

 throat, and middle of belly dirty white : primaries brown ; middle 

 pair of tail-featiiers reddish finely mottled with black, rest black 

 glossed with steel-blue. Total length 22-5 inches, wing 8-8, 

 tail 8-8, tarsus 2-5. 



Immature f males differ only in having the middle pair of tail- 

 feathers with rather strongly marked wavy bars and mott lings of buff. 



Hab. Lower and middle ranges of the Western Himalayas, from 

 Ha/ara to Kumaon and Western Nepal. 



a. c? ad. St. Himalayas. K. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]. 



6. cJ ad. sk. llimnluyas. Gould Coll. 



