CONTENTS 



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PREFACE vii 



INTRODUCTION . xix 



Pheasants : A Brief General Account xxi 



Distribution xxvii 



Comparative Abundance xxxi 



Voice xxxii 



Flight and Gait xxxiv 



Daily Round of Life xxxv 



Food XXXV 



Roosts xxxvi 



Friends and Enemies xxxvii 



Protective Colouring xxxviii 



Home Life xlii 



Relation to Man xlviii 



BLOOD PARTRIDGES i 



Himalayan Blood Partridge {Ithagenes cruentus) 6 



Nepal Himalayan Blood Partridge {Ithagenes cruentus cruentus) . . 23 



SiKHiM Himalayan Blood Partridge {Ithagenes cruentus affinis) . . 25 



Tibetan Blood Partridge {Ithagenes tibetanus) 26 



Kuser's Blood Partridge {Ithagenes kuseri) 27 



Geoffroy's Blood Partridge {Ithagenes geoffroyt) 30 



Wilson's Blood Partridge {Ithagenes wilsont) 35 



Northern Blood Partridge {Ithagenes sinensis) 37 



David's Northern Blood Partridge {Ithagenes sinensis sinensis) . . 42 



Michael's Northern Blood Partridge {Ithagenes sinensis michaelis) . . 43 



Berezowsky's Northern Blood Partridge {Ithagenes sinensis berezowskii) 44 



TRAGOPANS 45 



Satyr Tragopan {Tragopan satyra) 49 



Western Tragopan {Tragopan melanocephalus) 65 



Blyth's Tragopan {Tragopan blythi blythi) 7^ 



Tibetan Tragopan {Tragopan blythi molesworthi) 86 



Temminck's Tragopan {Tragopan temminckt) 87 



Cabot's Tragopan {Tragopan cabott) 99 



impeyan pheasants 109 



Himalayan Impeyan Pheasant {Lophophorus impeyanus) .... 113 



Chinese Impeyan Pheasant {Lophophorus Ihuysii) 148 



Sclater's Impeyan Pheasant {Lophophorus sclateri) i53 



EARED-PHEASANTS ^59 



Brown Eared-Pheasant {Crossoptilon niantchuricum) . . ... 163 



Blue Eared-Pheasant {Crossoptilon auritum) i79 



White Eared-Pheasant {Crossoptilon tibetanum) 185 



Wild Hybrids {Crossoptilon) • • ^93 



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