LIST OF COLOURED PLATES, PHOTOGRAVURES 



AND MAPS 



COLOURED PLATES 



Plate XLV. THE COMMON KOKLASS PHEASANT Pucrasia macrolopha macrolopha 

 (Lesson) Frontispiece 



Painted by G. E. Lodge. 



This Koklass is shy and rather solitary, adverse to gathering in large flocks even to feed. 

 It is pre-eminently monogamous, and the pairs remain together throughout the year. 



It invariably roosts in trees. I have found them well up in deep conifers, and they return 

 night after night to their favourite perch. In spring, at least, they roost in pairs, or the male 

 alone when the female has begun to sit. 



Plate XLVI. KASHMIR KOKLASS PHEASANT Pucrasia macrolopha biddulpJii 



Marshall . . . . . . . . . Facing page 24 



(Upper left-hand figure) 



WESTERN KOKLASS PHEASANT Pucrasia macrolopha castanea Gould 



(Lower figure) 



NEPAL KOKLASS PHEASANT Pucrasia macrolopha nipalensis Gould 



(Right-hand figure) 

 Painted by G. E. Lodge. 



The sides and flanks are grey in the Kashmir bird, chestnut in the Western Koklass, and 

 nearly black in the Nepal form. 



Their habits are similar, and in all parts of their mountainous range we find conifers over- 

 head, and, as in the painting, beds of tall saxifrage pushing up through the fallen needles and 

 cones, their filmy heads nodding in the dim forest light. 



Plate XLVII. YELLOW-NECKED KOKLASS PHEASANT Pucrasia xanthospila 



xanthospila Gray ....... Facing page 32 



Painted by G. E. Lodge. 



On a bitterly cold, rainy day, near the Great Wall of China I heard the crow of one of 

 these pheasants, and although I had no dog I stalked the bird. Through the mist the stunted 

 vegetation showed dull brownish, dripping, saturated, while the rocks had no healthy covering 

 of moss and lichens, but a dark, shining slime which made walking very difficult. Across a 

 small open space I saw the Koklass run swiftly, the white neck patch and tail-tips flashing 

 conspicuously as it went. 



Plate XLVIII. DARWIN'S KOKLASS PHEASANT Pucrasia darivini darwini 



Svi^inhoe • • • . . . . . . Facing page 42 



(Lower left-hand figure) 



STYAN'S KOKLASS PHEASANT Pucrasia darwini styani Grant 



(Upper right-hand figure) 

 Painted by G. E, Lodge. 



The lower plumage is a warm chestnut in Darwin's Koklass, but clear black and grey in 

 Styan's Pheasant. 



These birds live in the uplands of the coastal provinces of east-central China, where they 

 range through the bamboo groves on the open hillsides. They are everywhere rare and seldom 

 seen or shot. 



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