314 I'HASIANIDJE. 



2. Pucrasia nipalensis. 



Tragopan pucrasia, Temm. (nee Gray) PI. Col. v. pi. 15 [nee text] 



[uo. 545] (1834) ; Hume, Str. F. v. p. 138 (1877) ; id. Sti: F. vii. 



p. 124 (1878). 

 Gallophasis pucrasia, Hodgs. Icon. med. in Brit. Miis., Gall. pi. 20. 



nos. 68, 71; id. J. As. Soc. Benr/. xii. pt. 1, p. 313 (1843); id. in 



Grays Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). ' 

 Pucrasia macrolopba, Gray, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 31 (1844) 



[part.]; id. Cat. Hodgs. ed. i. p. 12G (1846) ; Sclat. List Phas. p. 3 



(1863) [part., Nepal] ; Blyfh, Ibis, 1867, p. 152 [part.]. 

 Phasianus macrolopha, Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 245 (1849) 



[part.]. 

 Pucrasia nipalensis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 100 [Nepal, Bhotan] ; 



td. B.Asia, vii. pi. 28 (1854) ; Sclat. List Phas. p. 4 (ls03) [Bliotan] ; 



Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 30 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 258 



(1870) ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 428 (1878) ; Hmne S,- Marsh. Game 



B. Ind. i. p. 166, pi. (1878) ; Marsh. Ibis, 1879, p. 463 [Bhotan] ; 



Scully, Str. F. viii. p. 343 (1879) [W. Nepal] ; Hume, Str. F. viii. 



p. 449 (1879) [not in Bhotan]. 

 Pucrasia duvauceli, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 879 (1856) ; Gray, Cat. 



Hodgs. ed. 2, p. 68 (1863) ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. pi. 29 (1872) ; 



id. Ibis, 1878, p. 125. 



Adult male. Differs chieflj' from P. macrolojjha in having the 

 feathers of the mantle, sides and flanks black, more or less narrowly- 

 edged with gre^', the feathers of the Lack and sides of the neck and, 

 in some cases, the mantle edged and mixed with dark chestnut, and 

 the wing-coverts, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts black, 

 the former margined with buff and the three latter with white. 



AcluJt female resembles the female of P. nmcroloplia. 



Hah. Central Himalayas, Xepal. 



a-c. cJ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 d-i. S 2 ad. et Jumla, W. Nepal, Jan., Aug., Hume Coll. 

 imm. sk. Dec. [J. Scully). 



3. Pucrasia castanea. 



Pucrasia castanea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 99 [Kafiristan] ; id. B. Asia, 

 vii. pi. 27 (1854) ; Sclat. List. Pirns, p. 4 (1863) ; Hume, Str. F. v. 

 p. 138 (1877) ; Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 125 *. 



Pucrasia duvaucelii, Gray, Hand-L B. ii. p. 259 (1870) ; Marsh. Ibis, 



1879, p. 463 [N. Afghknistan]. 



Adult mcde. Differs from P. macroloplia in having the upper part 

 of the mantle and neck dark chestnut like the rest of the under- 

 parts ; most of the feathers of the sides and flanks chestnut or 

 chestnut mixed with black, only a few being black narrowly edged 

 with white as in P. nipalensis ; and the centre pair of tail-feathers 



* Mr. Elliot states that he purchased Gould's type of P. cadanea and that 

 it is now in the Zoological Museum at Stuttgart. Whatever the specimen he 

 purchased may have been it was certainly not the type, as the two typical 

 specimens of P. castanea were both in the collection of the Hon. East India 

 Company, and are now in the British Museum. 



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