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loose at the sides, dilatable, wrinkled, and with a few scattered 

 hairs ; when excited of a deeper blue with crimson bars ; irides 

 deep brown; legs yellowish brown. Length about 27 inches; 

 wing 11 ; tail 11 ; tarsus 3^ ; weight about 4-| lbs. 



The female is brown throughout with dark mottlings, and with 

 some faint white lines on the upper back, and wing-coverts, being 

 the representative of the white ocelli of the male ; quills ches- 

 iiut banded with dusky ; chin albescent ; beneath, the white lines 

 increase in size from the breast, and are large on the belly and 

 vent. 



Length about 24 inches; wing 10 ; tail 10. Young males re- 

 semble females ; and when in a state of change, have red spots 

 on the neck, wings and lower parts. In winter, after the breeding- 

 season is over, the naked parts about the head and neck diminish 

 in size, or almost disappear. 



This species of Horned-pheasant is found in the Nepal and 

 Sikim Himalayas, and was the first species known to naturalists. 

 It appears to be very abundant in Nepal, and it is not rare in 

 Sikim at considerable elevations. I have seen it at about 9,000 

 feet in spring, and in winter it descends to between 7,000 and 

 8,000 feet in the vicinity of Darjeeling, and perhaps lower in 

 the interior. It is frequently snared by the Bhoteeas and other 

 Hill-men, and brought alive for sale to Darjeeling. Its call, which 

 I have heard in spring, is a low deep bellowing cry, sounding like 

 waa-ung, icaa-un/j. Its general habits are no doubt similar to 

 those of the next species which have been more accurately 

 observed. 



806. G'eriornis melanocephaia, Gray. 



Satyra apud Gkay — Blyth, Cat. 1452 — Tragopan Ilastingii, 

 Vigors — Gould, Cent. Him. Birds, pi. 63,64,65 — Phas. nipalensis. 

 Gray (the female)— Hard wicke. 111. Ind. Zool. 1. pi. 46,47,48 

 and 2 pi. 40 — Jewar, or Jowur, Jowahir, Jwyr, as variously written, 

 in the N. W. Himalayas, Jaltgi at Simla — Lungi, in Kumaon 

 ■ — Sing monal, L e. the Horned Monaul, — ^ Argus Pheasant^ of 

 Europeans at Simla and elsewhere. 



