'33. I'LCKASIA. :i\ 1 



A. r>:is;il part of tliu outer tail-f'eatliers mostly 

 liliick or black and riit'dus, nover j^rey. 

 (f. No distinct yellow nuchal collar. 



(i. Sides and llank.s with black siiaft-stripe.s. 

 (/". Darlt chestnut does not e.xtend rdund 



the back of the neck inacmloji/ia, ]i. 'Ml. 



/>". Dark chestnut extending more or less 

 completely round the back of the 



neck biddulphi, p. M'-i. 



h'. Sides and Hanks black, or black and 



chestnut, narrowly margined with grey. 



c". Mantle black, or black mixed with 



chestnut and margined with whitish 



buff; lower back and rump blaitk, 



edged with white nipalensis, p. 31 4. 



d" . Mantle uniform dark chestnut ; lower 

 baclv and rump grey, with black 



shaft-stripes caManea, p. 314. 



b. A well-marked yellow nuchal collar metjeri, p. 315. 



15. Jiasal ])art of the outer tail-feathers grey. 



c'. Sides and Hanks with grey or bulf shaft- 

 stri]ics. 

 e" . "With a rufous-yellow nuchal collar; 

 ground-colour of .sides and flanks 



grey vcndho.-^iilci, p. 315. 



f". With no rufous-yellow nuchal collar ; 

 ground-coldur of sides and flanks 



pale rufous buff darwini, p. 31(5. 



II. With .short crest; no elongate bunches of 

 feathers behind the ear-coverts. [^FenudesP\ 



f macvolopha, p. 31 1 . 



C. Basal part of the outer tail-feathers black and ! '' 'J" >\- ■■ 

 ,.',,, •< iiiim/cnsis, p. 314. 



rulous or chestnut, never Ki"ey ) . ' . ' i .,-i , 



' "^ •' .- cnstanea , p. 314. 



\^mci/eri, p. 315. 



I). Basal part of outer tail-feathers grey. 



c. Black cross-bar complete xanthuspilu, p. 315. 



d. Black cross-bar incomplete, represented by 



a black spot situated on the t^haft danvini, p. 31G. 



1. Pucrasia macroloplia. 



Satvra mncrolopha, Less. Diet. Set. Kat. lis. p. 190 (1820); id, 



fraite d'Orii. ]). 493 (1831). 

 I'hasiauus puorasse, Grai/, >7i Griff', cd. Cur. iii. p. I'G (18:29) [Al- 



niorah Hills]. 

 Phasianus jnicrasia, Grai/, III. Ind. Zuol. i. pi. 40 (1830-32) ; Gould, 



Cod. />'. llinuil. pis. C9, 70 (1831'); Jit/ne, 1\ Z. S. 1841, p. 6 



[Alpine Punjab]. 

 Euploci.mus pucrasia, Jmd. Kat. Lib., Orti. iv. p. 'JIO, pi. xxi. 



(1834). 

 Tragoj)an pucrasia, Timm. PI. Col. v. te-xt to pi. 15 [no. 545] 



(1834). 

 Eulophus nmcrolophus, Less. Cuntj). L'ltff'. vii. p. 354 (1830). 

 I'ucrasiamacrolophn, Grai/, List of li. pt. iii. Gall. -p. 31 (1844) [part]; 



id. Gen. B. iii. p. 503 (1844) ; JIultoii, J. As. Soc. Beiiij. xvii. pt. 2, 



♦ The female of P. castanea, as far as I am aware, is unknown. 



