2A GALLIFORMES CHAP. 
fly short distances when flushed; the note is a shrill crow, a 
“whistling chuckle” or a “chirrup;” the food is as usual in 
Pheasants. The pugnacious male is said to strut with outspread 
tail, and to drum with his wings while courting; the nest, 
formed of dry herbage in a depression of the soil, contains from 
nine to fourteen creamy or reddish-buff eggs. 
The “ Eared” or Snow-Pheasants (Crossoptilon) have a vaulted 
tail with decomposed webs to the long decurved median feathers, 
fine white ear-tufts, and lax hairy plumage, shorter and curled 
on the crown. The naked papillose cheeks and the metatarsi 
are red, with a pair of stout spurs on the latter in the male. C. 
tibetanum of West China and East Tibet is white, with black 
crown, dark brown remiges, and greenish- or purplish-black 
rectrices. C. leucurum of East Tibet has the tail white with 
blue-black tip, as has C. manchuricum of Manchuria and North 
China, in which the mantle, nape, and breast are blackish-brown, 
with a faint white band between the ear-coverts, found also in 
C. auritum of West China and Koko-Nor, and well defined in C@. 
harmani of Tibet. - The last two have the nape, back, and under 
parts grey-blue. These elegant birds haunt lofty mountain-woods 
until cold weather comes on; they are comparatively tame, feed on 
leaves, shoots, roots, fruit, worms, and insects, and lay—at least 
in the case of C. manchuricum— from twelve to sixteen drab 
egos. The plumes are worn by Tartar and Chinese warriors. 
Lobiophasis bulweri of Borneo is a splendid bird with maroon 
nuchal collar and chest, brown remiges, white tail, and black 
plumage elsewhere with blue margins to most of the feathers. 
The stiff spine-pointed rectrices number twenty-eight in the hen 
and no less than thirty-two in the cock, the whole tail being 
compressed and the median plumes decurved; in the male the 
skin of the naked front of the head is blue, as are two caruncles 
present behind the ears, two smaller processes on the lores, and two 
wattles at the gape. The rufous, buff, and black female has only 
the sides of the face bare, with diminutive lateral wattles on the 
throat. This species skulks in the jungles, and prefers running 
to flying, having many of the habits of a fowl, though ranging 
up to two thousand feet; the eggs are stone-coloured. 
The magnificent Firebacks (Lophura) have, so far as is known, 
similar habits to the members of Gennaeus, though they are stronger 
on the wing, and utter mellower notes in their forest retreats ; 
