S2 PITASIANIDJE. 



rusty red ; wing-coverts greenish grey, pale-shafted ; inner greater 

 coverts brmdly edged outside with purplish chestnut; quills 

 brown, with a few pale markings, the innermost with black centres 

 and chestnut edges ; tail-feathers rufous brown, middle pair gene- 

 rally greyer with purplish-red edges, all with broadish black cross- 

 bars not far apart ; sides of breast chestnut, with black tips ; 

 abdomen dark brown in the middle, green at the sides ; lower 

 flanks dark chestnut. 



Female. Upper plumage mostly black, edged with whity brown ; 

 feathers of the hind neck and upper neck with rufous centres and 

 pale shafts, those of the rump wit!? buff cross-bars and broad light 

 greyish-brown edges ; quills dark brown, with pale cross-bands ; 

 tail with undulatiug narrow black and light greyish-brown cross- 

 bars, that are broader on the middle pair of rectrices, and traversed 

 by ill-denned narrow whitish bands ; chin and throat whitish, rest 

 of lower parts whity brown, the feathers banded and speckled with 

 blackish. 



Legs and feet of a male lead-colour, inclining to flesh-colour ; 

 naked skin around eye scarlet (Elliot}. 



E-ectrices 18. Length of a male 27*5; tail 16; wing 9; 

 tarsus 2-4 ; bill from gaj)e 1'25. Length of a female 21 ; tail 9-f> : 

 wing 8 ; tarsus 2' 3. 



Distribution. Szechuen in China. This Pheasant was obtained 

 also by Anderson in Yunnan, and by Gates from the Shan Sates 

 of Burma, where a specimen was shot by Lieut. H. R. Wallis. 



Genus CATREUS, Cabanis, 1851. 



The Cheer Pheasant was formerly referred to Phasianus, but 

 appears to deserve separation on account of being crested, and of 

 its very different plumage. There is a simple occipital crest of 

 considerable length in the male, shorter in the female. The tail, 

 of 18 feathers, is in the male twice as long as the wing, and but 

 little less in the female, the middle feathers four or five times as 

 long as the outer pair. A large area on each side of the head is 

 naked. The wing is rounded, and the male is armed with a strong 

 spur on each tarsus. 



A single species. 



1333. Catreus wallichi. The Cheer Pheasant. 



Phasianus wallichii, Hardwickc, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv, p, 166 (1827) ; 



Blyth, Cat. p. 245 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 527 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 



xxx vii. pt. 2, p. 68; Hume, N. $ E. p. 524; Hume $ Marsh. 



Game B. i, p. 169, pi ; Hume, Cat. no. 809 ; Scully, S. F. viii, 



p. 345 ; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 423 j Gates in Humes 



N. 8f E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 412. 

 Phasianus staceii, Gould, Cent. pi. 68. 

 Catreus wallichii, Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 499; Mitchell, ibid. 



p. 545, pis. 147 (young), 149, fig. 4 (eg-r) ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. 



B. M. xxii, p. 317. 



Chihir, Chir, Nepal, Kumaun, Garlnval, &c. ; Bunchil, Herril. hills 

 north oiMussooiee; C'Mman, Kulu, Chamba. 



