58 PHASIANIN^. 



Gen. Pucrasia— Gr^J'. 



Bill short ; head double-crested ; tarsus spurred ; toes slender, long ; tail 

 long, of 16 feathers. 



73. Pucrasia macrolopha {,Lesson), Gould, Cent. Him. B. 

 pis. 69, 70 ; id., B. Asia, pt. vi. pi. 4; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 524 ; Elliot, Hon. 

 Phas. I pi. ; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds i. p. 159; Murray, Avif. Brit. 

 Ind. ii. p. 537, No. 1 196. Pucrasia nipalensis, Gould, Cent. Him. B. pi. 6; 

 Hardiv., III. Ind. Zool. pi. 4O ; Hume, Sir. F. vii, p. 428 ; Hume and Marsh., 

 Game Birds i. p. 165. Pucrasia castanea, Gould, B. Asia, pt. vi. pi. v. ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. v. p. 138 ; vii. pp. 124, 428. — The Koklass Pheasant. 



Head of Pucrasia macrolopha. 



Head glossy dark green, the crown and medial crest ashy brown; the 

 lateral feathers of the crest dark green and from 4 to 4*2 inches long ; 

 an oblong patch of white on each side of the neck ; upper surface of the 

 body light ashy, each feather with a mesial streak of black ; wing coverts light 

 chestnut brown, the feathers with black patches ; upper tail coverts light 

 ashy ; tail chestnut brown, tipped with black and narrowly edged with 

 whitish ; chin and throat black, also the upper edge of the oblong white 

 neck patch ; breast and centre of abdomen deep chestnut ; flanks ashy ; 

 vent chestnut, tipped with white. Bill black ; irides dark brown ; legs and 

 feet ashy. 



Length. — 24 inches ; wing lO; tail 12 ; tarsus 2'5. 



The plumage of the female is pale yellow brown above, variegated and 

 banded with dark brown chestnut, and pale yellowish ; chin and throat 

 yellowish white ; under surface of the body yellowish-chestnut, with dark 

 brown markings, paler along the abdomen and darker on the flanks. 



Length. — 20 inches ; wing 8' I to 8-6 ; tail 7 to 7*5 ; tarsus 2-2 to 2*5. 



Irides deep brown ; bill dusky black, yellowish horny at the tip of upper 

 and base of lower mandible ; legs and feet dusky plumbeous. 



Ha5.—N.-\Y. Himalayas, from the west of Nepaul to beyond Simla, 

 extending probably into the Bhootan Himalayas. It is said to be common 

 to the whole of the wooded regions from an elevation of about 4,000 feet to 



