PUCK ASIA. 85 



Phas. i, pi. 28 ; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 125 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 138 ; vii, 

 p. 124. 

 Pucrasia biddulphi, G. F. L. Marsh. Ibis, 1879, p. 461 ; id. S. F. 



viii, p. 445. 



Plus, Kashmir ; Kukrola, Chamba ; Koak, Kulu, Mandi ; Koklds, 

 Kokla, Simla to Almora ; Pokrds, Bhote Pergunnahs of Kumaun and 

 Uarhwal and Western Nepal. 



Fig. 16. Head of P. macrolopha, J. \. 



Coloration. Male. Median occipital crest fawn-coloured, the 

 very elongate lateral posterior tufts with the whole head, nape, 

 and throat black, richly glossed with dark green ; a large oblong 

 white spot at each side of the neck ; upper parts to the rump grey 

 with a brownish tinge, browner on the wing-coverts and scapulars, 

 each feather with a broad black lanceolate shaft-stripe, varying 

 greatly in breadth, and confined, in old birds of the typical variety, 

 to the basal half of the feathers on the sides of the lower back and 

 rump ; scapulars and rump-feathers often with rufous shaft-stripes ; 

 quills dark brown, with isabelline-buff outer borders ; later second- 

 aries more or less mottled with rufous near the shafts ; long 

 upper tail-coverts and middle tail-feathers varying from dull rufous 

 to chestnut, with grey tips ; outer rect rices black, shading into 

 chestnut on the outer webs towards the base, and narrowly tipped 

 white ; fore neck, middle of breast and of upper abdomen chestnut ; 

 sides of breast and flanks like back ; lower abdomen dull rufous, 

 pale-shafted ; under tail-coverts mixed chestnut and black. 



Female. Crown black, mixed with rufous or buff; a short 

 occipital crest, dark brown in front, buff with black spots behind ; 

 supercilia buff; forehead and sides of head buff, with blackish 

 borders to feathers ; ear-coverts black and rufous ; upper parts 

 generally brown, the feathers with rufous-buff shaft-stripes, black 

 lateral blotches, and the tips and edges much mottled with pale 

 grey and buff, especially on the wings and rump ; tips of scapulars 

 and of some wing-coverts whitish ; quills brown, mottled with 

 buff on outer webs and tips ; longer tail-coverts and middle tail- 

 feathers greyish brown speckled with black, and with irregular, 

 black-edged, rufous-buff cross-bar?, sometimes indistinct ; outer 

 tail-feathers black, more or less replaced by chestnut on outer 

 webs, except near the ends, the tips white ; chin and throat white; 



