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p. 300 (1893); id. Hand-List, Game B., i, p. 262 (1895) ; Gates, 

 Man., Game B., i, p. 329 (1898); Blanf., Fauna. Brit. Ind., iv, p. 

 •90 (1898). 



Gennceus leucomelanos, Ghigi, Mem. Acad. Bologna (6), v, p. 

 145 (1908). 



Description : adult male. — Similar to the White-crested Kalij 

 but having the crest black and the white on the upper parts less in 

 ■extent and less conspicuous. 



Female. — Cannot be distinguished from that of albocristatus. 



Distribution. — Nepal, from the foot of the hills up to about 6,000 

 feet, ascending as high as 9,000 feet. 



This bird is exactly intermediate between albocristatus and 

 inelanonotus, approaching the former more nearly than the latter, for, 

 in birds from the extreme West of its range, the crest will often be 

 found to be brownish, and the extent of white more than normal, 

 and again albocristatus in the East of that bird's range, instead of 

 having the crest pure white, sometimes has it a pale brown. Some 

 naturalists might, therefore, consider it a sub-species of that bird, but 

 taking into consideration the great extent of country over which the 

 •colouration is quite constant, I retain it for the present as a species. 



GENNiEUS MELANONOTUS. 

 The Blo^cJu-bacTied Kalij Pheasant. 



P^-asiaims m-iti/mra, Gray in Griffith's ed. Cuv., iii, p. 27 (1829). 



Gallophasis onuthura, Gray, Gen. B., iii, p. 498 (1845). 



Euplocomus melanonotus (Blyth), Hutton. J. A. S. B., xvii, pt. 

 2, p. 694 (1848) (Darjeeling) ; Blyth, Cat.' Mus. As. Soc, p. 244 

 <1849). 



Gailo-phasis melanonotus, Mitchell, P. Z. S. (1858), p. 544, pi. 149, 

 fig. 2 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., iii, p. 534 (1863) ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 Ind. B., p. 527 (1873) ; Marshall, B. Nests Ind., p. 59 (1877). 



Fuplocamus melanonotus, Hume and Inglis, Str. F., v, p. 42 

 .(1877). 



Fuplocamus melanonotus, Hvime, Str. Feath., vii, p. 429 (1878). 



Fuplocomus onelanonotus, Hume and Marshall, Game Birds, 

 India, i, p. 191 (1878); Gates, ed. Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii, p. 

 415 (1890). 



Gennceus mutliura, Ggilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds, B. M., xxii, p. 

 -301 (1893); Ghigi, Mem. Acad. Bologna (6) v, p. 145 (1908). 



Gennceus melanonotus, Ggilvie-Grant, Hand-List, Game B., i, 

 p. 263 (1895); Gates, Man. Game Birds, i, p. 331 (1898); Blanf., 

 Fauna. Brit. Ind., iv, p. 91 (1898); Gates, Cat. Eggs, B.M., i, p. 54 

 (1901). 



Description: adult male, The whole upper plumage glossy black, 

 the feathers with white shafts. 



