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Adult Male. — Entire plumage black, glossed with purplish or 

 steel-blue ; only the feathers of the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts margined with white, those of the under-parts 

 being only slightly pointed. Size the same as in the other 

 species. 



Adult Female. — Like the female of the last named species, but 

 the feathers of the under-parts usually have narrow buff shaft- 

 stripes, and in old examples the middle pair of tail-feathers 

 become uniform dark chestnut, usually contrasting rather 

 strongly with the olive-brown rump ; the outer pairs black, 

 Range. — The forests of Eastern Bootan, Assam, Sylhet, 

 Cachar, Manipur, Hill Tipperah, Chittagong, and North Ara- 

 kan. 



Mr. Hume tells us that "the range of this species is decidedly 

 lower than that of either of the other three; it is common 

 down in the low country along the edges of cultivation and 

 the banks of rivers where there is forest, only a few hundred 

 feet above sea-level, but it grows less plentiful, I am assured, 

 as you ascend the hills, and is very rarely shot at elevations 

 exceeding 4,000 feet." 



Mr. R. A. Clark, of the Mynadhar Tea Garden in Cachar, 

 says : " These birds are very common here, keeping to well- 

 wooded hills and ravines. They go about in pairs, though 

 parties of three and four are often met with, and on one 



occasion I saw a party of eleven 



" I once witnessed a fight between a male Kalij and a Jungle 

 Cock {Galhis galhis) for the possession of a white-ant hill 

 from which the winged termites were issuing. I watched the 

 contest for a quarter of an hour, by which time both birds were 

 exhausted, when the Kalij fled, leaving the Jungle Cock in 

 possession. On another occasion I came across a pair of male 

 Kalij fighting amongst a lot of ferns ; they were so taken up 

 with their own affairs that they did not notice my having 

 approached to within fifteen yards ; I let them go on for ten 



