54 PHASIANIN^. 



purple, dull and unglossed elsewhere. Bill dark horny ; naked orbits blue ; 

 irides brown ; legs dull ashy green. {Jcrd.) 



Length. — 27 to 29 inches ; wing 1 1 to 12-2 ; tailfrom vent 9-5 to I0"5 ; tarsus 

 2*7 to 3 ; bill from gape 1-9 to 2, Females are smaller. The female has the 

 chin and throat white, the rest of the body pale huffy brown, with dark brown 

 spots, bars and undulations ; secondaries barred black and rufous ; tip of tail 

 and external margin of tail coverts whitish. Bill blackish; legs dusky greenish. 



Length. — 24 to 26 inches ; wing 10*3 to 1 1 ; tarsus 2-65 to 27 ; bill 1-3. 



Hab. — The western borders of Cashmere to the more western portions of 

 Bhootan, and throughout the Himalayas, as far east as Sikkim. Jerdon says in 

 Sikkim it is not found at a lower elevation than 10,000 feet. Common about 

 Mussoorie at one time, and also about Simla. Breeds throughout the forest- 

 clad ranges of the Himalayas during May and June. The eggs are laid in a 

 bare depression in the ground under the shelter of some overhanging rock, or 

 the massive root of some large tree. The eggs, 4 to 6 in number, are long 

 ovals, a good deal compressed at one end ; the ground colour is bufUsh 

 white thickly and coarsely freckled all over, especially in the middle, with deep 

 reddish brown. Size from 2*41 to 2*69 in length by 17 to r89 in breadth. 



69. Lophophorus Sclateri, Jerd., Ibis, 1870, p. 147; id., 



y. A. S. Beng. 1870, p. 61 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 162, pi. xiv. ; Elliot, 

 Mon. Phas. i. pi. xx. ; HutJie, Game Birds, ^. 13S, pi. Lophophorus (Chal- 

 cophasis) Sclateri, G. R. Gray, Hand List B. ii. p. 261. Chalcophasis 

 Sclateri, Gould, B. Asia vi. pi. 70 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Lid. ii. p. 534, 

 No. 1 193- — Sclater's Crestless Monaul. 



Top of head covered by a short recurved green crest ; occiput, cheeks, 

 throat and entire under parts deep velvetty black ; back of neck red, becoming 

 orange yellow on the lower part ; back and wings metallic green, with blue 

 and purple reflections ; shoulders reddish bronze ; primaries brownish black ; 

 rump white with mesial black lines ; upper tail coverts white ; tail deep chest- 

 nut tipped broadly with w^hite ; facial skin deep blue, with short, black hair- 

 like feathers ; legs and feet brown ; bill greenish horn. 



Length. — 27 inches ; wing 12-4; tail 9-0; bill at front 1-3 ; from gape 1-95 ; 

 tarsus 3-2; irides brown. 



}jab. — East and South-East of Sadiya. Nothing is known of its habits. 



Gen. CeriorniS. — Sivainson. 



Bill rather short ; head with two small erectile fleshy horns behind the nude 

 orbits ; crown crested ; throat with extensile gular wattles ; tail short, broad, of 

 18 feathers ; tarsi short. 



70. Ceriornis satyra {Linn.), Gould, Cent. Him. B. pi. 62 ; 



Jerd., B. hid. iii. p. 5 16, No. 805 ; Hume and ALirsh., Game Birds i. p. 137. 



