312 PIIASIANII)^. 



p. 694 (1848) ; Guuld, B. Asia, vii. pi. 26 (1854) ; Adaiiis, P. Z. S. 

 ]8o8, p. 500 [Simla] ; Irkj, Ibis, IfSCl, p. 235 [Kumaon] ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. iii. p. 524 (1863) ; Gmif, List Gallhm Brit.Mus. p. 30 (1867) ; 

 Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 203 [Simla to Mussooree] ; v.Pek. Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 321 [Koteghur]; Becwan, Ibis, 1868, p. 380 [Simla]; Brooks, 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 60 [Naini Tal, Almorah] ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. 

 p. 258 (1870) ; Elliot, Man. Phas. i. pi. 28 (1872). 

 Phasianiis macroloplia, Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 245 (1849) 

 [part]. 



Adult male. Long occipital crest bright buff ; a large snow-white 

 patch on each side of the neck ; rest of the head, chin, throat, and 

 fore part of neck black, glossed with dark green, the patch of 

 feathers on each side above the ear-coverts being enormously elon- 

 gated and considerably surpassing the crest in length ; mantle, lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts grey, wing-coverts and scapulars 

 browner and more or less tinged with olive and rufous ; all the 

 feathers of the mantle and most of the wing-coverts with a mode- 

 ratel)' wide black shaft-stripe extending to the end of the feather ; 

 greater secondary-coverts and scapulars with a black subterminal 

 blotch ; in very old birds the black shaft-stripes on the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts (with the exception of the median line 

 ok' feathers) are not visible, being confined to the basal half of the 

 feathers, (iuills brown, the outer webs of the second to the sixth 

 primary buff, and the margins of the outer webs of the secondaries 

 greyish brown ; the middle of the chest, breast, and belly dark 

 chestnut ; feathers of the sides greyish white, with narrow or 

 moderate black shaft-stripes. Centre pair of tail-feathers chestnut, 

 blackish down the middle and tipped with brownish grey ; outer 

 pairs black, shading into brownish red on the basal three-quarters of 

 the outer web and narrowly tipped with white. Eill black ; legs 

 and feet grey, tinged with flesh-colour or purplish. Total length 

 23 inches, wing 9-4, tail 9-5, tarsus 2-0. 



Immature males have the black shaft-stripes on the mantle twice 

 as wide as in adult birds, and on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts they are strongly marked and extend to the extremities 

 of the feathers. 



In a youMj male the top of the head is brown, the crest and 

 lengthened feathers are undeveloped, the feathers of the chin and 

 throat are white, those of the fore part of the neck white, margined 

 with black ; the back of the neck buff, barred and mottled with 

 black ; the chestnut on the breast is only partly represented, and 

 the under tail-coverts are widely tipped with white ; otherwise the 

 plumage does not differ much from that of the adult. 



Adult female. Top of the head black, with rufous bars, a short 

 occipital crest brown in the middle, buflf on each side, and edged 

 and mottled m ith black ; feathers on the nape with black bars 

 glossed with green ; feathers of the mantle black, tipped with 

 brownish grey or sandy brown, and with irregular >|/ -shaped 

 rufoiis shaft-stripes ; wing-coverts and scapulars mottled with black 

 and rufous, with buff shaft-stripes, and the longer ones with large 

 black subterminal blotches extending over one or both webs ; lower 



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