CATREUS. 83 



Coloration. Male. Crown and crest brown, each feather edged 

 and tipped paler ; sides of head, where feathered, including the 



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Fig. 15.-Head of C. wallicki, rf. f 



ear-coverts, brown, slightly more rufous ; neck all round, except 

 behind, chin, and throat sullied white ; back of neck and upper 

 back black, the feathers barred and tipped with white ; wing- 

 coverts pale-shafted and barred buffy white and black, the colours 

 broken up and mottled on the greater coverts and scapulars ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull rufous, each feather with 

 a subterminal black band, glossed with green ; quills dark brown, 

 irregularly edged and speckled with buff ; tail-feathers with alter- 

 nating subequal broad cross-bars of white or buff and black mottled 

 with grey, and replaced in parts by chestnut on the inner webs oi: 

 the outer feathers, generally a narrow detached black stripe in 

 front of each black bar, the white or buff bars often speckled with 

 black ; breast and Hanks buff or buffy white, the feathers barred 

 with black ; middle of abdomen blackish, lower abdomen grey 

 tinged with rufous on lower flanks and under tail-coverts. s 



Female. Feathers of crown and crest dark brown, with buff 

 edges ; supercilia and sides of head brown, with broader whitish 

 edges to the feathers ; chin and throat white ; neck all round and 

 upper breast black, with broad whitish edges ; feathers of the 

 upper back barred black and chestnut, with whitish shaft-stripes 

 and tips ; wing-coverts mixed black and buff, white-shafted, and 

 with whitish edges ; scapulars and greater coverts with whitish 

 ends ; quills black, barred with buff on the outer webs and with 

 rufous on the inner ; lower back and rump greyish brown, mixed 

 with black and buff ; tail brown, mottled and blotched with 

 black, and with rather narrow, irregular, more or less black-edged 

 whitish cross-bars ; lower breast rufous, the feathers pale-edged ; 

 abdomen and lower tail-coverts isabelline, more or le.*s with black 

 crescentic subterminal bars, especially on the lower flanks and 

 tail-coverts. 



Bill pale horny ; nude sides of head bright red ; irides yellowish 

 hazel ; legs and feet brown (Jerdon}. 



Length of males 34 to 40 (some are said to reach 46) ; tail 20 

 to 23; wing 10; tarsus 2'9 ; bill from gape 1*4. Length of 

 females 24 to 29-5 ; tail about 14-5 ; wing 9 : tarsus 2'6. 



Distribution. Prom the neighbourhood of IChatmandu in Nepal 

 to Chamha, at elevations of from 4000 or 5000 to 10,000 feet in 

 the outer Himalayas, not in the drier upper valleys. 



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