A REVISION OF THE GENUS GENNAlUS. 667 



Mi]jlocamus alhicristatus, Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs,. 

 iii, p. 413 (1890). 



Gallophasis albocristatus. Mitch., P. Z. S. (1858), p. 544, pis. 

 148, fig. 1 and 149, fig. 3; Jerdon, Birds Ind., iii, p. 532 (1863) ;. 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 526 (1873) ; Marshall, Birds' 

 Nests Ind., p. 58 (1877). 



Qennmus albocristatus, Ogilvie-Grant. Cat. Birds, B. M.. xxii,. 

 p. 298 (1893), id. Hand-List, Game B., i., p. 258 (1895). 



Gennoiv.s alhicristatus, Gates, Man., Game B., i, p. 324 (1898) ; 

 Blanf., Famia. Brit. Ind., iv, p. 89 (1898) ; Gates, Cat. Eggs, B.. 

 M., i, p. 54 (1901) ; Rattray, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc, xvi, p. 663 

 (1905); Ghigi, Mem. Acad., Bologna (6), v, p. 145 (1908);. 

 Macgrath, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc, xviii, p. 298 (1908); "Pine 

 Martin, " J. Bomb. N. H. Soc, xix, p. 796 (1910). 



Tij])6. — In Indian Mnsenm. 



Bescription, adult male. — Crest white ; head and upper parts 

 black,. upper back Avith white shafts and narrow pale edges ; lower 

 back, rump and upper tail coverts with white bars ; lower parts 

 brown, almost white on the long lanceolate feathers of the breast. 

 Legs pale horny. 



Adult female. — General plumage reddish brown, paler below ; ver}- 

 faintly vermiculated throughout with blackish. Central tail feathers 

 generally rufous or rufous brown with fine pale vermiculations, 

 other rectrices almost black. 



Bistrilmtion. — Along the Himalayas, from the Indus on the West 

 to Nepal on the East, possibly entering it for a short wa}^ in the 

 extreme East as far as the Gogra. 



During the breeding season, this Pheasant is often found at great 

 heights up to 10,000 feet,well into a comparatively dry, cold climate 

 with light forest and much open country. To this doubtless is due 

 the extent of white obtaining on the upper plumage. In winter it 

 is found between two and five thousand feet. 



Genn^us leucomelanus. 



The Nepal Kalij Pheasant. 



Fhasianus leucomelanos, Lath, Ind. Grn., ii, p. 633 (1790). 



Euploco'tnus leucomelas, Hodgs., in Graj^'s Zool. Misc., p. 85- 

 (1844). 



Gallophasis leucomelanos, Gra}^, Gen. B., iii, p. 498 (1845); 

 Hutton, J. A. S. B., xvii, pt. 2, p. 694 (1848). 



E'liphcarnus leucomelanus, Hume, Str. Feath., vii, pp. 428-429' 

 (1678); Hume and Marshall, Game B. Ind., i., p. 185, pi. (1878). 



Gallophasis leucorrtelanus, Scully, Str. Feath., viii., p. 345 (1879).. 



Gennceui- lezicomelanus, Ggilvie-Grant, Oat. Birds, B. M., xxii,. 



