ORDER GALLINiE. 29 



Black headed Pheasant. Hardw. Mss. Phasianus 

 Melanocephalus. Gray. 



Varied black and white, small undulated band 

 with white spots, surrounded by a large black 

 ring ; neck and small wing-coverts, orange-red ; 

 chest, orange-red, with white eyed black spots; 

 belly with black spot, including a smaller white 

 one ; head and upper part of neck, black ; crest, 

 erectile ; orbits, feathered, like Ph. Satyra, but not 

 having any horn nor wattle. Female, pale-brown; 

 back, varied with black lunate spots, and small black 

 edged, white spots ; wings, with angular black bands ; 

 crown, crested, black and brown banded; neck, bright 

 red; lower part, lunulated pale-brown, with black 

 curved lines ; beneath, paler, with indistinct blackish 

 lunated bands: tail, undulated black and brown, 

 punctately banded; spurless. Almorah in India. 

 Gen. Hardwicke. 



Brown Nepaul Pheasant. Hardw. Phasianus 

 Nepaulensis. Gray. 



Female, pale-brown ; each feather with several curved 

 blackish punctated lines, near the end; beneath, 

 paler ; lower part of the neck, wing, and body, with 

 triangular white spots, edged with black on the centre 

 of each feather ; loins and rump, with a black spot 

 on the centre of each feather ; thighs, pale, blackish 

 banded ; quills and tail, pale chesnut, with cross bands 

 of black dots. Like female of Lophophorus Impey- 

 anus, but orbits, feathers, bill, and plumage different. 

 Length, twenty inches. Male, above, darker; the 

 quill and tail-feathers, blackish-bro^ra, with five or 

 six irregular pale-yellowish bands ; and a short blunt 

 spur. 



