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GanieB. Ind., I, p. 155, pi. (1878) ; Srally, Str. Featli., VIII., 

 p. 343 (1879); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat, Birds, B. M.,XXII., p. 268 

 (1893); Gates, Manual Game B., I.,p. 228 (1898); Blaiiford, 

 Faun. Brit. India, YI., p. 103 (1898) ; Sliarpe, Handlist, I., p. 23 

 (1899). 



Ithaginis cruentatus. — Hodges in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85 

 (1844) ; Ingram, Nov. Zool., XIX., p. 270 (1912). 



Ithaginis cruentus cruentus. — Beebe, Zoologica, I. vol., p. 191 

 1912). 



Ithaginis cruentus a.ffinis. — Beebe, Zool., I., No. 10, p. 191 

 (1912) (British Sikhim). 



Ithagenes emeritus. — Stuart Baker, Bull. B. 0. C, XXXV., p. 18 

 (1914), id., ibis (1915) p. 122; Finn, Indian Sporting Birds, 

 p. 217 (^1915). 



Vernacular names. — Chilmeali, Chilme, Chilmili, Seremin, Sel- 

 mung, (NejJal) ; Same, Semo, Soomong Pho (^Sil'him). 



Descrijjtion — Adult Male. — Lores, forehead, supercilium and line 

 under the eye, black ; the black often changing to buff on the 

 crown, and then again to gre}^ on the longest crest feathers, which 

 are centred Math white streaks. 



Whole upper surface grey, with central shaft streaks of white 

 narrowest on the mantle, and broadest on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts, where the white lines are bordered with black. Chin and 

 throat crimson, the feathers with black bases which show through 

 in varying degree, and those of the throat with tiny yellow white 

 specks at their tips. Ear coverts, sides of the head and neck 

 black and white or yellowish white ; foreneck yellowish green ; 

 feathers with black bases and edges. In some birds the black is 

 very slight in extent ; in others, it covers a large portion of the 

 feather. Upper breast yellowish green, mors or less splashed with 

 crimson ; lower breast and flanks the same, with darker, greener 

 borders, making this part appear to be coarsely striated ; abdomen 

 dull ashy buff, more or less covered by the lanceolate green feathers 

 of the breast and flank. Under tail coverts crimson, with yellow- 

 spots at the tips. 



Smaller and mediam wing coverts like the back, but with broader 

 shaft stripes on the latter; primaries and outer secondaries brown, 

 v,^hite shafted, and sometimes mottled on the outer webs ; greater 

 coverts and innermost secondaries marked with green and with broad 

 3^ellowish shaft stripes edged with black. 



The longest tail coverts are edged with crimson ; tail feathers pale 

 brown, becoming almost white on the terminal part where they are 

 more or less faintly mottled and edged with brown ; the central 

 tail feathers are broadly edged with crimson throughout their length, 

 though most broadly so on the base, the outer feathers only at the 

 base. 



