316 



PUASIANlD-li:. 



the shaft-stripes are mostlj- buff ; there is a rufous-bufF iiucbal 

 collar, each feather with a pale buff shaft-stripe ; the louger upper 

 tail-coverts and centre pair of tail-feathers are pale grey with a 

 triple black, chestnut, and black submarginal stripe down each side ; 

 the rest of the tail- feathers are pale grey tipped with white, with 

 a wide black subterminal baud and two or three regular black bauds 

 across the basal part. 



Adult female has the tail-feathers, with the excei)tion of the 

 centre pair, like those of the adult male, otherwise the plumage 

 resembles that of P. macrolojjJta. 



Hah. Mountains of iS^.W. China, extending into Mantchouria and 

 Eastern Thibet. 



a,b. S 2 'id. sk. Mts. N.SV. of Pekiu. Hon. Sir F. W. A.Bruce, 



K.C.B. [P.]. (Types 

 of the species.) 



c. (S fd. sk. Kansu, Jan. M. Berezowsky [C.l. 



d. (S ad. .-k. Ta-chien-lu {Pratt). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



0. Pucrasia darwini. 



Pucrasia darwini, Swinli. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 552 [Che-kiang] ; Elliot, 

 Monofjr. P/ias. i. pi. 30 bis (1872) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 25 (1875) ; 

 David ^ Oiistal. Ois. Chine, p. 409 (1877) [Che-kiang and Fokien] ; 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 329, 499 [Lower Yangtse Basin]. 



Adult male. Like P. xanthospila, but there is no rufous-buff 

 nuchal collar and all the feathers of the sides and flanks, though 

 similarly marked with black, have the ground-colour pale reddish 

 buff instead of grey, and the grey basal parts of the outer tail- 

 feathers, though not barred with black, are margined with that colour 

 on both webs, and there is also a partial shaft-streak of the same. 



Adult female resembles the female of P. o'antliospila, but the 

 black bars across the grey basal part of the outer tail-feathers are 

 incomplete and only represented by a black spot on the shaft. 



Bab. Mountains of Eastern China, Ngan-whi, Che-kiang, and 

 Eo-kien. 



a. S ad. sk. Niiigpo, Dec. (i?. Swinhoe). II. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



34. CATREUS. 



Type. 



Catreus, Cab. Ersch u. Grub. Encijcl. sec. 1, liii. p. 221 



(1851) . C. wallichii. 



LophopLasiauus, Heiche/ib. Xat. Syst. Voy. p. xxis (1852) C. wallichii. 



Tail composed of IS feathers, the centre pair very long, about 

 live times as long as the outer pair. 



1st primary shorter than the 10th, oth is slightly the longest. 



A long full occipital crest, less marked in the female. 



Male with a pair of strong spurs, sometimes represented in the 

 female by blunt warts. 



Pamje. Himalayas ; extending eastwards as far as Katmandu in 

 Nepal and west to Chamba. 



