LOPHOPHORUS. 58 



quill longest ; tail ample, of i8 feathers ; upper tail coverts long, and covering 

 the tail feathers ; tarsi nude, scutate before and behind ; males only with 

 a spur. 



67. Crossoptilon thibetanum, Hodgson, y. A. s. B. 1849; 



Hume atid Marsh. t Game Birds hid, p. 1 15, pi.; Tickell, Field m., 1 886, 

 p. 170. Crossoptilon drouyni, Verr., Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind, ii. p. 533, 

 No. 1 191. — Hodgson's Eared Pheasant. 



Head of Crossoptilon thibetanum. 



Top of the head black, the feathers narrow, short, erect, velvetty and thick set ; 

 cheeks and facial skin nude and red ; wings short, stiff, bowed and rounded ; 

 quills blackish on their outer webs ; lesser and median wing coverts greyish 

 ash, tinged with blue ; upper plumage bluish hoary, paler and tinged 

 with yellowish- on the lower surface ; alar and caudal plumes dusky or 

 black, glossed more or less with changeable blue; bill dull ochreous red. 

 {^Hodgson.') 



Length. — 38 to 40 inches; tail 19 to 20 ; wings 12*5 ; tarsus 4-12 ; bill 1*62. 



Hah. — Nepaul. Mr. Hume figures this bird in his " Game Birds of India," 

 and though he says it could hardly claim to be included in the Indian Avifauna, 

 I have (osving to the rarity of the species, and the remarks of Colonel Tickell 

 in a note by Mr. Hume,) given a description of it in the event of the bird being 

 found, as Colonel Tickell surmises, nearer Nepaul. 



Gen. LophoptlOrUS, Temm. 



Head crested, the shafts of the feathers bare except at the tip ; orbits bare ; 

 bill somewhat lengthened, the tip deflected ; tarsus spurred ; tail short. 

 Plumage rich metallic green and gold. 



68. LophOphoruS ImpeyanuS {Lath.), Gould, Cetit. Him. 

 Birds, pis. 60, 61 ; id., B. Asia pt. ii. pi. 7; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 510, No. 

 804; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds of Ind. i. p. 125; Murray, Avif. 

 Brit. Ind. ii. p. 533, No. 1 192. — The Monaul Pheasant. 



Head, including the crest, also the throat, brilliant metallic green ; back of the 

 neck brilliant iridescent purple, passing into bronzy green, and all with a golden 

 gloss ; upper back and wing coverts, also the rump and upper tail coverts richly 

 glossed with purple and green, the latter colour prevailing on the wings and 

 furthest tail coverts. Middle of back white ; quills black ; tail cinnamon 

 rufous ; whole lower surface black, glossed on the throat with green and 



