GENX.EUS. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper parts to rump glossy black. 



a'. Feathers of breast lanceolate, whitish. 

 a". Lower back and rump with white 

 edges to feathers. 



a 3 . Crest white G. albicristatus d , p. 89. 



b 3 . Crest black G. leucomelanvs J , p. 90. 



b". Lower back and rump without any 



white G. melanonotus $ , p. 91. 



b' . Feathers of breast black, not lanceolate, 



white bars on rump G, hortfieldi <3 , p. 92. 



b. Upper parts black and white. 



c'. Upper surface finely vermiculated .... G. lineatus tf , p. 92. 

 d'. Upper surface with concentric bars 



on feathers G. andersoni <$ , p. 94. 



c. Upper parts brown. 



( G. albicristatus $ , p. 89. 



, , ) G. leucomelanus $ , p. 91 . 

 e . No white V-shaped marks round neck. . -j Q melanonotus g f yl . 



( G. horsfteldi $ , p. 92. 

 \ G. lineatus 9 , p. 93. 

 / . White V-shaped marks round neck . . j Q anderson i$ Jp. 94. 



1336. Gennaeus albicristatus. The White-vested Kalij Pheasant. 



Phasianus albocristatus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 9. 



Euplocomus albocristatus, Hutton, J. A. S. 11. xvii, pt. 2, p. 698 ; 



lyth, Cat. p. 244. 

 Euplocamus albocristatus, Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 499; Hume 8? 



Marsh. Game B. i, p. 177, pi.; Hume, Cat. no. 810 ; C. H. T. 



Marsh. Ibis, 1884, p. 423 ; Oates in Humes N. Sf E. 2nd ed. iii, 



p. 413. 

 Gallophasis albocristatus, Mitchell, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, pi. 148, 



fig. 1 (young), & pi. 149, fig. 3 (egg) ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 532 ; 



Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii,' pt. 2, p. 68 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, 



p. 380 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 526. 

 Gennaeus albocristatus, Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 298. 



Kdlij, Kukera, Mirghi Kdlij, Kaksur $ , Kalesi $ , H., in various parts 

 of theN.W. Himalayas; Kolsa, Western Punjab and Chamba. 



Fig. 17. Head of G. albicristatus, <$ . ?. 



Coloration. Male. Long hairy crest white ; forehead, sides of 

 crown, nape, sides and back of neck, upper back, and wing-coverts 

 black glossed with purplish steel-blue, the feathers of the upper 

 back with narrow whitish borders ;, lower back, rump, and upper 



