1863.] SPECIES OF PHASIANID^. 121 



10. EuPLOCAMUS HORSFiELDi. (Hoisfield's Kaleege.) 



Gallophasis horsfieldi, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. pi. 126. 



Hab. Assam and Sylhet. 



This and the two following species were introduced by the Society 

 in 1857, and are bred every year in the Gardens. Full details re- 

 specting them have been given from time to time in the * Proceedings' 

 and 'Annual Reports' of the Society. (See P. Z.S. 1858, p. 554, 

 and 1860, p. 444.) 



11. EuPLOCAMus MELANOTUS. (Black-backcd Kalecge.) 



Euplocamus melanotus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvii. p. 694 ; Cat. Mus. 

 A.S. B. p. 244. 



Hab. Sikhim and probably Bhotan. 



12. Euplocamus albocristatus. (White-crested Kaleege.) 



Phasianus albocristatus, Vig. P. Z. S. 1832, p. 16 ; Gould, Cent, 

 pi. 66. 



Hab. Western Himalayas: "rare on the Cashmere ranges ; more 

 plentiful on those near the Punjab " (Dr. A. L. Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 186). 



Capt. Thomas Hutton observes with reference to this species, in 

 his ' Notes on the Nidification of Indian Birds ' (J. A. S. B. xvii. 

 pt. 2. p. 694) :— 



" In Mr. Gray's catalogue of the collection presented to the British 

 Museum by Mr. Hodgson, this and Phasianus hamiltonii are given 

 as synonyms of Gallophasis leucomelanos. In this there . appears 

 to be some degree of error, for the species are distinct. Mr. Blyth, 

 in epistold, writes that ' there are' four true races and two hybrids. 

 Of the former, one is E. albo-cristatus, crest rarely very white, the 

 white on the rump always well developed ; and found exclusively 

 westward of Nepal. E. melanotus, Blyth, which has a black crest, 

 and no white on the rump, is common at Darjeeling : and the Nepa- 

 lese E. leucomelanos is certainly a cross between these two. E. 

 cuvieri of Assam, Sylhet, &c., has white on the rump, but the under 

 parts wholly shining black ; and this has produced a mixed race with 

 E. lineatus in Arracan. 



" If such be the case, the name of leucomelanos, belonging only to 

 a hybrid, and not to a true species, must give place to Gould's name 

 of albocristatus. Phasianus hamiltonii of Gray's ' 111. Ind. Zool.' 

 looks very like an immature male of the present species, but, being 

 from Nipal, is probably an immature hybrid. In the neighbourhood 

 of Mussooree and Simla we have only Euplocamus {Gallophasis) 

 albocristatus (yerus), — the others all occurring more to the eastward, 

 as correctly observed by Mr. Blyth. The long white crest is seldom, 

 or perhaps never, found except in fully mature birds, it being gene- 

 rally of a dirty or dusky hue, like that figured in Gould's ' Century.' 

 Every place, however, is now so thoroughly poached over by native 

 shikarrees that an old white-crested bird is extremely rare." 



