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GAME-BIRDS. 



of the head are feathered, and there is no marked naked space surrounding the 

 eye ; the tail is elongated and wedge-shaped, and the upper tail-coverts are long, 

 extending more than half-way towards the extremity. In the typical koklass 

 (Pucrasia macrolopha) of the Western Himalaya, the male has the crest briglit 

 buff, a large snow-white patch on each side of the neck, and the rest of the head, 

 including the long feathei*s above the ears and the throat, black, glossed with dark 

 green; the upper-parts, sides, and flanks being grey, with black middles to the 

 feathers; the wing-coverts similarly marked, but browner, and tinged with rufous; 

 and the middle of the breast and under-parts dark chestnut. The middle tail- 



BILVEB PHEASANT ({ nat. size). 



feathers are mostly chestnut, the outer pair black shading into reddish brown 

 towards the base, and tipped with white ; while the bill is black, and the legs and 

 feet are grey or purplish, and armed with a pair of spurs. The female has a much 

 shorter crest, and no ear-tufts ; the plumage being black, variously marked with 

 sandy rufous and buff; the throat and under-parts white, the latter being marked 

 with black; and the under tail-coverts chestnut, tipped with white. Of this 

 species Mr. Wilson remarks that it is " common to the whole of the wooded regions 

 from an elevation of four thousand feet to nearly the extreme limits of forest, but 

 is most abundant in the lower and intermediate ranges. The koklass is of a 

 rather retired and solitary disposition. It is generally found singly or in pairs ; 

 and, except the brood of young birds, which keep pretty well collected till near the 



