65. MARSHALL'S KOKLASS 

 PHEASANT. 



Pucrasia biddulphi^ MARSHALL. 



MALE : The upper plumage and sides 

 of the body ashy streaked with black ; 

 the breast and belly dull dark chestnut, 

 each feather margined with black. 



FEMALE : Not differing apparently from 

 the female Common Koklass-Pheasant. 



VERNACULAR NAMES : None known. 



MARSHALL'S Koklass-Pheasant has hither- 

 to only been obtained in Kashmir. 

 One of the specimens in the British 

 Museum was procured by Colonel Bid- 

 dulph at Gilgit. The exact origin of the 

 other specimens is not known. We are 

 simply informed by the labels attached 

 to them that they come from Kashmir. 

 It is, however, probable that the present 

 species ranges over the northern part of 

 that country and that the Common Koklass- 

 Pheasant inhabits the southern part only. 

 This species was described in 1879 by 

 Colonel G. F. L. Marshall from a speci- 

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