3 LLOYD’s NATURAL HISTORY. 
Phasianus staceii, Vig. Phil. Mag. 1831, p. 232; id. P.Z.S. 1831, 
Pp: 35: 
Catreus wallichit, Gould. Cent. B. Himal. pl. 68 (1832) ; id. 
Birds of Asia, vii. pl. 18 (1865) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 317 (1893). 
Adult Male-—Top of the head dark brown, all the feathers, es- 
pecially those of the crest, tipped with dirty white ; throat, neck, 
and chest dirty white ; upper back, breast, and sides of the belly 
creamy-white, the feathers of the former widely fringed with 
whitish-grey ; wings ochraceous-buff, all these parts being 
barred and marked with black; lower back and rump rustcolour, 
with black bars glossed with green; muddle of belly black ; 
quills brownish-black, edged and mottled with buff ; tail-feathers 
whitish-buff, the middle pair with wide irregular black bars 
changing to dark chestnut on the inner webs of the outer 
pairs. Total length, 34 inches; wing, 10; tail, 20°5 ; tarsus, 
20). 
Adult Female—Differs from the maie chiefly in having the 
feathers of the head and crest edged with buff ; the upper back 
pale chestnut, widely barred with black ; and the lower back 
and rump arty brown, mixed with black and buff; the neck 
and chest black, edged with buff, the breast and belly rzufous- 
chestnut, edged with buff and more or less mottled with black, 
the quills regularly barred with buff on the outer and pale chest- 
nut on the zzmer webs, and the tail-feathers dvownz or reddish- 
brown with wide mottled bars of black and buff, except on 
the outermost pairs, which are mostly buff. Total length, 30 
inches ; wing, 8°9 ; tail, 15°5 ; tarsus, 2°6. 
Range.— The Himalayas, extending eastwards as far as Kat- 
mandu, in Nepal, and westwards to Chamba, but not apparently 
to Kashmir. 
Habits.—Mr. A. O. Hume writes :—“ The Cheer is extremely 
locally distributed, and seems to me very capricious in its choice 
of habitations ; on one side of a river you meet with plenty in 
