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VIII. Description of two nezo Birds from Ncpaiil. By Major- 

 Generol Harchcicke, F.R.S., and F.L.S. 



Read March 21, 1826. 



Genus, Lophophorus. Temtn. Phasianus. Linn. 



\^''^ALLiCHii. L.capitc cristato nigrescente, regione perioptJial- 

 micâ niidâ coccincâ ; collo pectorerjue griseis 

 nigro-fasciatis ; dorso ferrugineo-aureo nigro- 

 variegato ; aJis ahdomine rcctricibusque pallidè 

 ferrugineo-hriinneis, his nigra ferriigineoqiie 

 fasciatis, illis nigro-variegatis. 



The local name of this bird is Cheer. It is a native of the 

 Almorah Hills, on the north-eastern boundary of Hindostan, 

 and is about the size of the Impeyan Pheasant of Latham. It 

 is remarkably bold, and fights with great vigour on the least 

 irritation, at the same time raising its feathers and prating with 

 a noise which resembles the word Tuckraa, Tuchraa, several 

 times repeated. 



The bill in size and shape very much resembles that of the 

 Impeyan Pheasant; but is in length something less than two 

 inches, much hooked at the end, and covering the apex of the 

 lower mandible. 



The eyes are large, surrounded with a broad naked space of 

 an irrregular lozenge shape, broader beneath the eye than 

 above, and pointed before and behind, of a crimson-red colour, 



and 



