THE MOONAL PHEASANTS. 



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II. THE IMPEYAN OR CHAMBA MOONAL PHEASANT. LOPHO- 

 PHORUS IMPEYANUS. 



Impeya?i Pheasant, Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 208, pi. 114 



(1787). 

 Phasia?ius impejanus (sic), Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 632 (1790). 

 Phasianus curvirostris, Shaw, Mus. Lever, p. 10 1, pi. (1792). 

 Lophophorus impeyanus, v. Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 120; Ogilvie- 



Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 2 So (1893). 

 Lophophorus chambanus, Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 421. 

 {Plate XIX.) 



Adult Male. — Differs chiefly from L. refulgens in having the 

 feathers of the lower back go/den-green, shading into purplish- 

 blue towards their extremities ; upper tail-coverts chestnut, tipped 

 with golden-green, and the under-parts entirely glossed with 

 metallic golden-green. Total length, 26 inches; wing, 11*5; 

 tail, 9 ; tarsus, 3. 



Adult Female. — Unknown. 



Range.— Chamba, N.VV. Himalayas. 



Remarks. — Although to Latham the credit of originally de- 

 scribing the male of this species undoubtedly belongs, Col. 

 C. H. T. Marshall may at least claim the honour of having re- 

 discovered this splendid bird, which had long been overlooked 

 owing to the unanimity with which ornithologists united L. 

 impeyanus, Latham, with L. refulgens, Temminck. Latham's 

 type has unfortunately disappeared, and we have been unable 

 to find any trace of it, though it at one time formed part of 

 the collection in the Leverian Museum in London, and was 

 the same individual described by Shaw as Phasianus curvi- 

 rostris. Most of this collection, which was sold by auction in 

 London in 1806, was purchased by the Vienna Museum, but 

 lAtham's type of L. impeyanus is no longer to be found. 



Colonel C. H. T. Marshall, who re-discovered this species, 

 which had been quite lost sight of since it was originally de- 

 scribed by Latham in 1787, writing in the " Ibis " for 1884, 



