380 Capt. Beavan on various Indian Birds. 



806. Ceriornis melanocephala. Simla Horned Pheasant. 



Not uncommon in the interior beyond Simla. On the 10th 

 June, 1866, I made the following note on a fine male shot by a 

 friend at the beginning of that month which was forwarded for 

 my inspection, and which had the gular skin and horns when 

 first killed, according to his account, like "scarlet velvet.'^ 

 When the specimen reached me this had dried up, and then the 

 soft parts had the usual appearance of having been purple in the 

 middle, edged with blue. I never met with this bird in a wild 

 state, as I was too ill during my stay at Simla to go out after 

 them. 



808. PucRASiA MACROLOPHA. Pukras Pheasant. 



Specimens were procured by me in 1866 in some num- 

 bers from Captain Begbie, who lived some forty miles from 

 Simla, in the interior, at Kotgurh, near which, I believe, he 

 employs natives to capture them; but the bird was never ob- 

 served wild by me. 



809. Phasianus wallichi. Cheer Pheasant. 



This, our Indian representative of the English Pheasant, is 

 not nearly such a handsome bird as that. I procured a specimen 

 in the flesh at Simla in 1866, which was shot by a native a short 

 distance from the station, but have not recorded anything 

 further about it. 



810. Gallophasis albocristatus. White-crested Kallege 

 Pheasant. 



This species is tolerably abundant above Simla, where I pro- 

 cured several specimens in the flesh in 1866, and made the 

 following notes at Mahasoo, October 1866 : — 



Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Spread foot. ^f> ^°™ ^^^^' ^^^"^ Extent. 

 ° ° ^ iront. gape. 



1. c? 25-5 9 10-75 2-75 3-375 1 1-25 27-5 



2. 2 21-5 8-25 8-25 2-5 3 1 1-25 24-5 



3. c? 26 875 11 2-75 3-25 1-0625 1-375 29 



the last being a remarkably fine male in good plumage. 



his able paper in the ' Field ' newspaper of April 7th, 1866, p. 294, on 

 "Our two species of Ceriornis," as follows : — c?. Length 24 to 27 inches, 

 wing 10 to 11, tail 9 to 11, tarsus 3|, middle toe 2}, bill 1 inch. 



