on Dr. Jcrdon's 'Birds of India* 153 



sent by Mr. Hodgson from Nipal differ in no respect from the 

 race of the North-western Himalaya; and the occurrence of 

 the presumed hybrid (P. nipalensis of Gould) would indicate 

 that the habitat of P. duvauceli is contiguous, the alleged 

 habitat, Katiristiin, being, of course, quite out of the question*. 

 It is more likely the " species very common in the jungles and 

 woods of Cashmere, which," remarks Dr. Adams, " I have not 

 examined and am inclined to consider different from P. macro- 

 lopha. Its crow is like that of the domestic cock, but not so 

 prolonged \i. e. that of Gallus ferrugineus ferus] . The valley 

 of the Duchinpara and surrounding ranges of the Northern 

 Pinjal are its favourite and particular localities " (P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 186). I have already (Ibis, 1865, p. 28, note) mentioned the 

 true form of crest in this genus, so utterly misrepresented in 

 Mr. Gould's and other published figures ; but when the sinci- 

 pital tufts are not erected (as also in Phasianus colchicus), they 

 lie recumbent, as in Hardwicke's pubUshed figure (Ill.Ind.Zool.), 

 which, no doubt, was taken from the living bird. 



809. Gallophasis albocristatus. 



Eggs of this bird and of G. melanonotus and G. horsfieldi are 

 figured in P. Z. S. 1858, Aves, pi. 149, and chicks of the first 

 two in the preceding plate. The Lophophorus cuvier'i, Temm. 

 (PI. Col. V. pi. 1), represents one of the hybrid race referred to, 

 between G. lineatus and G. horsfieldi. These completely pass 

 one into the other in the province of Arakan, whence some living 

 specimens have been received by the Zoological Society. In 

 like manner G. albocristatus and G, melanonotus interbreed in 

 the intermediate province of Nipal, G. melanonotus being the 

 species inhabiting Sikhim and Butan, where most assuredly G. 

 lineatus is unknown, the latter inhabiting southward of the 

 range of G. horsfieldi, i. e. in Pegu and the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces, whex-e I have personally observed it in the forests f. Ac- 

 cording to Dr. A. L. Adams, G. albocristatus is " rare on the 

 Cashmere ranges ; more plentiful on those near the Punjab. This 



* For what exceedingly little is known of the fauna of Kafiristan, if that 

 be not much too strong an expression, vide J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 332. 



t Specimens of G. lineatus in the British Museum are labelled from 

 Butan, as also several Tenasserim species of Sciurus, as S. atrodorsalis &c. 



