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persists strongly even on the outer feathers, while the narrow white fringe is strongest 

 on the outer ones and dies out before it reaches the central feathers. 



On the under parts the dark chestnut is developed only to about the same extent 

 in macrolopha, except, of course, on the side neck, where it joins that of the mantle. 

 But I have seen individuals of otherwise typical macrolopha which had more ventral 

 chestnut than any Nepal bird. The sides of the breast and belly show no trace of 

 ashy, but are dull jet black, with, as on the wing-coverts, adventitious hints of whitish 

 fringe. This is wider and more distinct on the flanks. The under' tail-coverts 

 are rich light chestnut. 



The Nepal Koklass shows a slight but steady decrease in size from macrolopha 

 eastward. The average measurements of a few extremely melanistic birds from central 

 Nepal are as follows: bill from nostril, 13 mm.; wing, 220; tail, 220; tarsus, 64; 

 rriiddle toe and claw, 58. 



Adult Female. — Within more narrow limits the female Nepal Koklass shows 

 as much variation as do the males. The extreme, reached through a gradual 

 transition, shows a decided erythrism, both on the dorsal and ventral surfaces. 

 The white colours of macrolopha become buffs and the buffy tones of the most western 

 species change to warm rufous in nipalensis. Bill from nostril, 12 mm.; wing, 200; 

 tail, 185 ; tarsus, 60 ; middle toe and claw, 54. 



SYNONYMY 



Tragopan pucrasia Temminck (nee Gray), PI. Col. V. 1834, pi. 15 [nee text] [no. 545]; Hume, Stray 

 Feathers, V. 1877, P- 138 ; id. Stray Feathers, VIL 1878, p. 124. 



Gallophasis pucrasia Hodgson, Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. Gall. pi. 20, nos. 68, 71 ; id. J. As. Soc. Beng., XH. 

 1843, pt. I, p. 313 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, P- 85. 



Pucrasia macrolopha Gray, List of Birds, pt. HI. Gall. 1844, p. 31 [part] ; id. Cat. Hodgs. ed., L 1846, p. 126; 

 Sclater, List Phas., 1863, p. 3 [part, Nepal] ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 152 [part]. 



Phasianus macrolopha Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc, 1849, p. 245 [part]. 



Pucrasia nipalensis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 100 [Nepal, Bhotan] ; id. B. Asia, VII. 1854, pi. 28; 

 Sclater, List Phas. 1863, p. 4 [Bhotan]; Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus., 1867, p. 30; id. Hand-list Birds, IL 1870, 

 p. 258; Hume, Stray Feathers, VII. 1878, p. 428; Hume and Marshall, Game-Birds Ind., I. 1878, p. 166, pi.; 

 Marshall, Ibis, 1879, p. 463 [Bhotan]; Scully, Stray Feathers, VIII. 1879, p. 343 [W. Nepal]; Hume, Stray 

 Feathers, VIII. 1879, P- 449 [not in Bhotan]; Grant, Cat. Game-birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 314; Grant, 

 Hand-book Game-birds, I. 1895, p. 284; Sharpe, Hand-list Game-birds, I. 1899, P- S^- 



Pucrasia duvauceli Bonap. C. R., XLII. 1856, p. 879; Gray, Cat. Hodgs. ed. 2, 1863, p. 68; Elliot, Mon. 

 Phas., I. 1872, pi. 29; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 125. 



Pucrasia macrolopha nipalensis Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 15, 1914, p. 278; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. His. 

 Soc, XXV. 1918, p. 537. 



