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"they usually fly into a tree; the flight is heavy and 

 " tisually downhill. The beaters on seeing these birds wonld 

 " make a noise like the barking of dogs, on which the birds 

 " fly into a tree and are easily shot. They say that if they 

 " do not make this noise the birds fly a considerable distance. 

 "Broods of freshly hatched chicks were seen at Gyala, 10,000 

 " feet on 18th July, while about the same time a specimen of 

 " a larger chick was shot. A well-grown young one was shot 

 " on the Putrang La on 24th August. These birds are trapped 

 " by Tibetans in the Lower Tsangpo Valley. Adult specimens 

 " in the flesh measured, males 3H", 33|", 35^", and females, 

 " 34" and 34^"." 

 In ejnstola to me Capt. Bailey adds a few notes which are of 

 interest. He says that although the birds called principally in the 

 mornings, and to a less extent as they were retxirning to roost at 

 night, they could be heard also at odd intervals throughout the day 

 except perhaps during the two or three hottest hours of the after- 

 noon. They kept very closely to the forest, and only wandered out 

 into the open places in the mornings and evenings, and even then 

 never seemed to venture far, and scurried back to the shelter of the 

 bushes at the least alarm. 



He seems to have found both male and female sharing in the care 

 of the young, a fact which woiild prove that the Eared Pheasants 

 are monogamous in their habits. 



Crossoptilon mantchuricum, Swinhoe. 



2%6 GJmiese Eared Pheasant. 



Crossoptilon tiheianum. — Lamprey, (nee Hodgs.) Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1862, p. 221. 



Crossoptilon auritum (su'e) mantchuricum. — Swinh., Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1862, p. 286 ; 1863, p. 306. 



Crossoptilon auritum. — Sclat., List of Phasianidse, p. 6, pi. 5 

 (1863); Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Bull. I., p, 12, pi. l,figs. 

 1 and 2 (1865); Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1866, p. 418; Saurin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1866, p. 437 ; David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Bull. 

 III., p. 37 (1867); Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 115; 

 Gould, Birds of Asia, VII., pi. 22 (1870). 



Crossoptilon mantchuricum. — Newton, Ibis (1865) p. 361. David, 

 Nouv. Arch. Mus. Bull. VII., p. 11 (1871); Swinhoe, Pro. ZooL 

 Soc, 1871, p. 399 ; Sclater, Proc Zool. Soc (1871) p. 495; Elliot, 

 Mon. Phasianid^ I., pi. 16 (1872); David and Oustalet, Ois. 

 Chine, p. 405, pi. 106 (1877); Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 

 118, pi. VIII, fig. 5 (egg); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. XXII., 

 p. 294 (1893) ; Dresser, Mamial Pal. Birds, p. 672 (1903) ; Ingram,, 

 Ibis (1909), p. 462. 



