THE PHEASANTS 



ing more than half way toward the extremity. In the typical koklass (Pncrasia 

 macrolopha] of the Western Himalayas, the male has the crest bright buff, a large, 

 snow-white patch on each side of the neck, and the rest of the head, including the 

 long feathers above the ears and the throat black, glossed with dark green, the 

 upper parts, sides, and flanks being gray, with black middles to the feathers, 

 the wing coverts similarly marked, but browner, and tinged with rufous, and the 

 middle of the breast and under parts dark chestnut. The middle tail feathers are 



SILVER PHEASANT. 

 ( One-fifth natural size. ) 



mostly chestnut, the outer pair black shading into reddish brown toward the base, 

 and tipped with white, while the bill is black, and the legs and feet are gray or 

 purplish, and armed with a pair of spurs. The female has a much shorter crest, 

 and no ear tufts, the plumage being black, variously marked with sandy rufous 

 and buff, the throat and under parts white, the latter being marked with black, 

 and the under tail coverts chestnut, tipped with white. Of this species Mr. Wilson 

 remarks that it is " common to the whole of the wooded regions from an elevation 

 of four thousand feet to nearly the extreme limits of forest, but is most abundant in 

 the lower and intermediate ranges. The koklass is of a rather retired and solitary 

 disposition. It is generally found singly or in pairs; and, except the brood of 



