96 PHASIANIDJE. 



Key to the Species. (Males only.) 



a. Lower back white, rump purple L. refulgens, p. 96. 



It. Xu white on back or rump L. impeyanns, p. 97. 



c. Lower back and rump white L. sclateri, p. 98. 



1342. Lophophorus refulgens. The Mondl. 



Lophophorus refulgens, Temm. Pig. et Gall, ii, p. 355 (1813) ; iii, 

 p. 673 ; Ogilpie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 278. 



Lophophorus impevamis, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 246 ; Adams. P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 500 ; Mitchell, ibid. p. 545, pis. 147 (young), 149, fig. 5 

 (esg) ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 510 : moHctka t J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, 

 p.e? ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 71 ; Hume, N. # E. p. 520 ; 

 Hume # Marsh. Game B. i, p. 125, pi. ; Hume, Cat. no. 804 ; 

 Scully, S. F. viii, p. 342 ; Fairbrother, S. F. ix, p. 203 ; Wardlaw 

 Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 70 ; Oaten in Hume's 3~. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, 

 p. 407 ; nee Lath. 



The Monanl Pheasant, Jerdon ; Lont $ , Ham $ , Nil-mor, Janyli-mor, 

 Kashmir ; Nilgur, Chamba ; Mnnal, Xil, tf , Karari , Kulu ; Mimal, 

 Ghar-mundl, Ratia Kairun, Rat/iff/, Rathap, X.W.Himalayas; Datii/a, 

 Kuniaun and Garhwal ; Dajia, Nepal ; Fo-donq, Lepcha ; Chamdony, 

 Bhot. (Sikhim). 



Fig. 18. Head of L. rcfulyens, <$ . 



Coloration. Male. Head and crest of spade-shaped feathers, 

 bend of wing, and upper tail-coverts brilliant metallic green : at 

 the sides behind the ear-coverts is a purple patch ; back and sides 

 of neck coppery bronze, passing into the bronze-green of the 

 upper back; mterscapulars, scapulars, wing-coverts, and rump 

 metallic purple, with the tips of the feathers blue or greenish 

 blue ; lower back white ; quills black, secondaries glossed with 

 green on the outer webs ; tail-feathers pale cinnamon, darker 

 towards the ends ; lower parts dull black, glossed with metallic 

 green on the throat and fore neck, along a stripe on each side of 

 the upper breast, and on the lower tail-coverts. 



Female. Brown ; the feathers of the head and neck above and at 

 the sides, upper back and wing-coverts black, with buff streaks 

 and mottling on each side of the shaft or along it ; crest short, 

 the feathers of equal breadth throughout ; lower back and rump 

 buff, with black bars ; upper tail-coverts more or less tipped with 

 white; quills blackish brown, secondaries with rufous-buff bars 

 and whitish tips ; tail-feathers like secondaries, but the rufous- 



