TETRAOGALLUS. 549 



Family. TETRAONID^E. 



Bill generally short, stout and thick ; wings rounded in most, pointed in a 

 few, longer comparatively than in the Phasianidce ; tail short ; tarsus short and 

 stout. 



Sub-Family . PERDICIN^E . 



Tarsus not feathered ; orbital region not feathered in some ; tarsus often 

 spurred. This includes the Snow Cocks and Partridges, also the Rock or Sand 

 Partridges. 



Gen. Tetraogallus, Gray. 



Bill moderately long, broad and stout ; a small nude patch behind the eye ; 

 tail of 1 8 feathers; tarsi short and stout, and with a blunt spur. 



1211. Tetraogallus Himalayensis (G. R. Gray), Gould, B. 



Asia, pt. v. pi. 2 ; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 549, No. 816 ; Hume, Game Birds of 

 Ind. p. 267, pi. The HIMALAYAN SNOW COCK. 



Crown of the head, cheeks and back of neck grey ; a chestnut band from 

 above the eye down the sides of the nape, and a second one from the angle of 

 the mouth down the sides of the neck ; two dark brown lunate marks on the 

 sides of the neck ; chin and throat whitish ; ear coverts greyish ; breast 

 whitish, the upper feathers each with a black lunule ; upper surface of the 

 body light ashy grey, minutely freckled with black, more ashy on the 

 wings and fringed with rufous ; feathers of the back, rump and wing coverts 

 striped with rufescent buff ; primaries white, broadly tipped with dusky and 

 freckled with greyish ; under surface of the body grey, minutely freckled with 

 brown, with a double broad streak of chestnut on each feather ; vent and under 

 tail coverts white. Bill pale horny or slaty ; nostril dark horny ; irides dark 

 brown ; legs and feet yellowish red or orange. 



Length. 26 to 29 inches ; wing 11-25 to I2 '6 ; tail 7'8 to 8'l ; tarsus 2-7 to 

 2'S ; bill from gape i'35 to i'S5- Females are smaller. Length 215 to 23 

 inches, with a wing of io - 8 to ii'S. 



Hab.1\\Q Himalayas from the eastern portions of Kumaon to Hazara. 

 Affects bare rocky hillsides, ravines and passes in the higher snowy ranges. 

 Common also in the northern portions of Kumaon and British Garhwal. 



1212. Tetraogallus thibetanus, Gould, B.Asia part v. pi. 4; 



Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 554 ; Hume, Sir. F. vii. p. 430; id. and Marsh., Game 

 Birds p. 276, pi. The THIBETAN SNOW COCK. 



Head and neck grey ; ear coverts white ; upper plumage freckled with buff 

 grey and black, the latter colour forming dashes ; primaries grey j secondaries 

 broadly edged externally with white, forming a marked wing band ; tail 

 rufous brown ; chin, throat and breast white, separated from the grey of the 

 head and neck by a dusky freckled line and a gorget of freckled grey and 



