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remarks : " Two years ago a Moiial Pheasant was brought into 

 me from the Birnota Forest (in the Chamba State, N.W. Hima- 

 laya), which I saw at once was very different from L. impeya?ius 

 (meaning Z. refulgens). Its bronzed lower back and green 

 breast made it easily distinguishable from any other known 

 species. My brother. Colonel George Marshall, R.E., who was 

 with me, suggested that I should describe it then, but fearing 

 that it might be a mere variety, I considered it best to wait 

 until more specimens could be procured. The following spring 

 Mr. A. L. Scale (to whom I have given a contract to shoot 

 Monal and Argus for skins in Chamba during the season) told 

 me that he had had three specimens of what he called ' the 

 Black-backed Monal ' brought in to him from the same direc- 

 tion that my bird came from. On comparison I found that 

 they agreed exactly with mine. This being, I consider, suffi- 

 cient proof that it is a distinct species, I propose for it the 

 name of Lophophoriis chambanus, after the Raja of Chamba, 

 in whose territories it was discovered." 



The female has not yet been discovered, but it is greatly to be 

 hoped that some of the many sportsmen, who go into Cash- 

 mere on shooting trips, will visit Chamba and secure examples 

 of both sexes of this rare Moonal. 



in. DE l'HUYS'S MOONAL PHEASANT. LOPHOPHORUS 



l'huysii. 



Lophophorus rhiiysii, Verr. and Geoffr. St.-Hil. Bull. Soc. 

 Acclim. (2), iii. p. 223, pi. (1866), iv. p. 706 (1867); 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1868, p. i, pi. i. ; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. 

 i.pl. 19(1872); Gould, B. Asia, vii.pl. 54(1873); David 

 and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 403, pi. 110(1877); Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 281 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Like L. refulgeiis, but differs chiefly in having 

 the crest purplish-bronze and composed of ordinary elongate 

 feathers; lower back white ; the rump-feathers metallic golden- 



