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58 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



TEXT IDENTIFICATIONS 



Himalayan Raven, Corvus corax tibeianus Hodgson. 



Himalayan Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus himalayensis Temminck. 



White-browed Bush-Robin, lanthia mdica (Vieillot.) 



Magnolia, Magnolia Campbellii and other sp. 



Paper Lilac, Daphne sp. 



Primroses, Primula petiolaris Wall, 



Orange-gorgeted Flycatchers, Siphia strophiata Hodgson. 



Jungle Cat, Felis chaus Giildenstadt. 



DETAILED DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male. — Head, from anterior edge of nostrils back to the neck, jet black, 

 broken only by two lines of orange feathers beginning just over the eyes and converging 

 on the nape, and an irregular post-auricular patch of the same colour. Both the orange 

 and the black feathers of the hind crown and occiput unite in forming a short, incon- 

 spicuous crest. Facial area covered rather thickly with short, black, velvety feathers. 

 Chin, gular throat lappet and throat posterior to this, sparsely covered with longish, 

 disintegrated feathers. Hind neck and entire mantle, bend of the wing and plumage 

 of under parts orange-carmine. Remainder of upper surface chiefly dark olive-brown. 

 The entire body plumage is characterized by a conspicuous terminal white ocellus 

 bordered with black. The hind neck is free from these ocelli, which appear abruptly 

 on the mantle as small but very distinct dots of silvery-white, shining against the 

 crimson background. Even these crimson feathers show an abundance of black and 

 buff barring on the basal portions of the feathers, and this rapidly increases as we 

 proceed backward, pushing up the shaft toward the ocellus, until the crimson is 

 restricted to two lateral subterminal patches. On the back and rump even this dis- 

 appears, and we find a generalized pattern, strongly suggestive of that of the female 

 and early plumages. On the back the central terminal shining white ocelli are small, 

 only 2 to 3 mm. in diameter, but become larger and more diffuse on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts. All the dorsal plumage shows two large lateral olive ocelli bordered with 

 black, which occupy about half of the visible portion of the feather. The background 

 and narrow margin of the feather is a pale olive-buff, with a number of irregular black 

 crossbars posterior to the ocelli. 



The bend of the wing and anterior edge is plain carmine, but the wing-coverts are 

 like the lower mantle, with the white ocelli rather diffuse and the lateral ocelli chiefly 

 carmine. The tertiaries and inner secondaries show no carmine, but very large, well- 

 marked olive ocelli, which in the outer secondaries fuse at the tip, replacing the white 

 ocellus. The secondaries are dark olive-brown, irregularly barred with pale buff, 

 changing to black on the primaries with about a dozen irregular buff bars. 



The enlargement of the olive ocelli reaches an extreme on the upper tail-coverts, 

 where, with the exception of very narrow marginal lines of buff and black, they occupy 

 the entire visible area. The tail-feathers are brownish black, with the basal halves of 

 the feathers mottled and barred irregularly with buff. 



The ventral plumage is of the specialized mantle pattern, carmine with glistening 

 white ocelli set in black. On the lower sides, belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts the 



