GAME-BIRDS. 



FAMILY PHASIANID^ (Vol, I. p. 78;. 

 SUB-FAMILY PHASIANIN/E (Vol. I. p. 199). 



THE CHEER PHEASANTS. GENUS CATREUS. 



Catretis, Cabanis, in Ersch. und Grueb. Encycl. sec. i, liii. p. 

 221 (1851). 



Type, C. walUchi (Hardwicke). 



Tail long, wedge-shaped, and composed of eighteen feathers, 

 the middle pair being very long, and about five times as long 

 as the outer pair. 



First primary flight-feather shorter than the tenth; fifth 

 slightly the longest. 



A large naked patch of crimson red skin surrounding the eye. 



A long full occipital crest in the male, less marked in the 

 female. The former is also provided with a pair of strong spurs, 

 which are sometimes represented in the latter by a pair of 

 blunt knobs, 



I. THE CHEER PHEASANT. CATREUS WALLICHI. 



Phasianus walUchii^ Hardwicke, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 166 

 (1827); Mitchell, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, pi. 147, fig. i, and 

 pi. 149, fig. 4; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. x. (1S72) ; 

 Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, i. p. 169, pi. 

 (1878) ; Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. iii. p. 

 4r2 (1890). 

 12 u 



