THE KOKLASS PHEASANTS. 28 1 



A. Basal part of the outer tail-feathers mostly black or black 

 and chestnut^ never grey. 



I. THE COMMON KOKLASS PHEASANT. PUCRASIA 

 MACROLOPHA. 



Satyra macrolopha, Less. Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. p. 196 (1829). 

 Phasianus pucrasia, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 40 (1830- 



32); Gould, Cent. B. Himal. pis. 69, 70 (1832). 

 Pucrasia macrolopha, G. R. Gray, List Gall. Brit. Mus. p. 31 



(1844); Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 26 (1854); Elliot, Monogr. 



Phasian. i. pi. 28 (1872); Hume and Marshall, Game 



Birds of India, i. p. 159, pi. (1878); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 311 (1893). 



{Plat 6 XXI.) 

 Adult Male. — A long buff occipital crest ; a large white patch 

 on each side of the neck ; rest of head and neck black, glossed 

 with dark green, the feathers behind the ear-coverts being enor- 

 mously elongate and longer than the crest ; general colour of 

 the upper-parts and sides grey, brownish on the wings, most of 

 the feathers with black shaft-stripes ; middle of the chest and 

 under-parts dark chestnut; outer tail-feathers black, shading into 

 rufous o?i the basal half of the outer web, and tipped with white. 

 Total length, 23 inches; wing, 9*4; tail, 9^5; tarsus, 2*6. 



Adult Female. — General colour above black, including a 

 short crest, mottled with sandy-buff, most of the feathers with 

 well-marked pale reddish-buff shaft-stripes ; chin and throat 

 whitish ; under-parts pale rufous, edged and mottled on the 

 breast and sides with black; outer tail-feathers mostly black, 

 chestnut towards the base, and tipped with white. Total 

 length, 19-6 inches; wing, 87; tail, 7*0; tarsus, 2*2. 



Range. — Forests of the Western Himalayas from Kumaon to 

 Chamba. 

 Habits. — Wilson says of the Koklass : 



" This is another forest Pheasant common to the whole of 

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



