25S Lloyd's natural history. 



may be expected to produce a number of remarkable and, as 

 yet, unknown species." 



THE KALIJ PHEASANTS. GENUS GENN^EUS. 



Gemiceiis, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1228. 



Type, G. nycthe7iierus (Linn.). 



Tail composed of sixtee?i feathers, long, laterally compressed 



(like that of the Game-Cock) ; the middle pair somewhat, or 



considerably, longer than the second pair, and at least three 



times the length of the outer pair in the male. 



First flight-feather considerably shorter than the second, 

 which is equal to the ninth or tenth ; fifth or sixth somewhat 

 the longest. 



Sides of the head naked. Plumage of sexes quite different. 

 Male with a long hairy crest and armed with a pair of stout, 

 fairly long, spurs. 



I. THE WHITE-CRESTED KALIJ PHEASANT. GENN^EUS 

 ALBOCRISTATUS. 



Phasianus albocristatus,N\g. P. Z. S. 1830, p. 9, and 1832, p. 16; 



Gould, Cent. B. Himal. pis. 66, 67 (1832). 

 Phasianus hamiltoni, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 41 



(1830-32). 

 Euplocamus albocristatus, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian, ii. pi. 18 



(1872); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of India, i. p. 



i 77j P L (1878) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. 



B. iii. p. 413 (1890). 

 Gallophasis albocristatus, Mitch. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, pi. 148, 



fig. 1, and pi. 149. fi g- 3- 

 Gennceus albocristatus, Wagler; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xxii. p. 298 (1893). 

 Adult Male.— A long crest of hairy white feathers ; rest of the 

 upper-parts and throat black, glossed with purplish and steel- 

 blue ; the mantle and upper tail-coverts narrowly bordered 



