Moonal Pheasants. 271 



tail is black mottled with rufous, narrowly 

 barred with creamy white and tipped with 

 a broad band of the same colour. The 

 first ten quills of the wing are dark brown. 

 The throat is white and the lower plumage 

 umber brown finely vermiculated with 

 buff and with the shafts of some of the 

 feathers paler. 



Length of male about 26 ; wing about 

 12 ; tail about 9. Length of female about 

 24 ; wing about io| ; tail about 8. In 

 the male, the naked skin on the sides of 

 the head is blue; irides brown, legs 

 brown ; bill yellowish horny. 



