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in S. E. Tibet between the Ranges of I. cruentus on the West and 

 /. Jhuseri on the East. 



Niclification, not Tinown. 



Habits. — Capt. Molesworth, the discoverer of this beautiful game 

 bird, writes that he found it extremelj^ plentiful on the Tela and 

 adjacent ranges, where they were in large flocks. Capt. F. M. 

 Bailey, who passed over the same ground, but, alas, after nearly all his 

 cartridges had been stolen, tells me that these birds were veiy 

 numerous over a wide area wherever the country was suitable. 



All the different species of Blood Pheasants would appear to fre- 

 quent the higher slopes and ridges of the mountains they inhabit, 

 not haunting the ravines and smaller vallej^s, however high the 

 elevation of these may be. Molesworth's Blood Pheasant, like the 

 rest, keeps to fairly thick cover, but in the mornings and evenings 

 comes out into the open glades and grass-land beside the pine forests 

 and bamboo jungle. 



Ithagenes geoffroyi (Verr.). 



Verreaux's Blood Pheasant. 



Ithaginis qeofroyi. — Verreaux, Bull., Soc. D'Acclim (2) lY., 

 p. 706 (1867);"David. and Arch. Mus. Bull., VII., p. 11 (1871) ; 

 David, and Oust., Ois. Chine, p. 401, pi. 113 (1877); Seebohm, 

 iUd (1891), p. 381 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds, B. M., XXII., p. 269 

 (1893); Oustal., Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Paris (3), YI., p. 77 (1894) ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Game B., I., p. 218 (1895); Sharpe, Handlist Birds, 

 I., p. 33(1899); Bower, Diary Journ. Across Tibet., p. 235 ; 

 Davies, ihid (1901), p. 408 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs, B. M., I., p. 50 

 (1901) ; Beebe, Zoologica I., No. 10, p. 191 (1912). 



Ithaqenes qeofroyi. — Stuart Baker, Bull. B.O.C., XXXY., p. 

 18 (1914) ; ihid (1915). 



Vernacida/r names. — None recorded. 



Descri'ption — Adult Male. — Forehead, lores, a broad supercilium 

 and feathers surrounding bare orbital patch black; crest slaty grey ; 

 the feathers with almost invisible tips of black ; cheeks and ear- 

 coverts dark ashy grey with white shaft streaks ; chin verj?- dark 

 ashj^ grey, paling on the throat, upper breast and sides of the neck, 

 the latter as well as a few at the sides of the breast, having white 

 shuft streaks. On the lower breast and flanks the colour changes 

 from grey to bright yellow-green, each feather with broad pale 

 centre, bordered with dusky on the upper abdomen and posterior 

 flanks ; abdomen, vent and thighs ashy, the thigh feathers with 

 white shaft streaks. 



■ Under wing coverts and axillaries grey. Whole of the upper 

 plumage and wing coverts grey, the feathers all more or less lanceo- 

 late, and with white central stripes, bordered with blackish ; on the 



