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Key to Sub-species of Lineatus. 



A. Upper plumage vermictilated equally 



throughout with fine black and white bars, lineatus. 



B. Upper plumage vermiculated with fine black 



and white bars but rump showing traces 

 of broad bars and contrasting with back... oatesi. 

 G, Upper plumage narrowly barred or lined 

 throughout with white and black, no 

 contrast between rump and back . . . shmyei. 



Key to Sub-species of Nycthemerus. 



A. Sides of neck pure white. 



a\ Upper parts almost pure white with very 

 fine and sparse lines of black. A very 

 long tail ... ... ... ... nycthemerus. 



&\ Upper parts rather more marked with black ; 



tail equally long in most cases ... ... rip^oni. 



B. Sides of neck finely vermiculated with 



black. 

 c\ Upper parts more boldly marked with 

 black and white, but the white still pre- 

 ponderating. Feathers at side of upper 

 breast sometimes streaked with white but 

 never pure white ... ... ... rufijpes, 



d}. Upper parts still more boldlj^ marked with 

 black and white bars in about equal 

 proportions ; feathers at sides of upper 

 breast white or nearly so. 

 a^ Paler ... ... ... ... ... annamensis. 



¥. Darker ... ... ... ... ... heli. 



? edwardsi. 



GENN.EUS ALBOCRISTATUS. 



The White-crested Kalij. 



Phasianus alhocristattos, Yigors, T. Z. S. (1830), p. 9; Goulds- 

 Cent. B. Himalaya, pis. 66-67 (text) (1882). 



Phasianus hamiltonii, Gray, in Griffith, ed. Ouvier, iii., p. 27 

 (1829) ; id. 111. Ind. Zool., i, pi. 41 (1830). 



PJiqilocornus alhocristatus, Hutton, J. As. Soc. Beng., xvii,. 

 pt. 2, p. 693 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. Asiat. Soc, p. 244 (1849). 



P^ui)locamus alhocristatus, Adams, P. Z. S. (1858), p. 499; 

 Elliot, Monog. Phas., ii, pi. 18 (1872); Hume and Inglis, Str.. 

 Feath., V, p. 42 (1877); Hume, Str. Feath., vii, p. 429 (1878);. 

 Hume and Marshall, Game B., i, p. 177, pi. (1878). 



