LIST OF COLOURED PLATES, PHOTOGRAVURES 



AND MAPS 



COLOURED PLATES 



Plate XXI. WHITE-CRESTED KALEEGE Gennaeus albocristattis (Vigors) 



Painted by G. E. Lodge. Frontispiece 



Over the great spruce forests of Kashmir and Garwhal chilly winds come roaring down 

 from Tibetan snow-peaks. But among the ferns and moss-muffled bases of the trees the 

 air is still, and fragrant with the odours of many forest flowers. Here the White-crested 

 Kaleege live ; here they scratch for grubs and tubers, court their mates, make their lowly 

 homes, and at twilight roost upon high, swaying branches. Before dawn, a fev/ will succumb 

 to the sudden attack of marten or weasel ; the others awaken in early morning, send forth 

 their challenge and begin anew their daily life. 



Plate XXII. NEPAL KALEEGE Gennaeus leucomelanus (Latham) • Facing page 26 



Painted by G. E. Lodge. 



No white man has ever seen this bird in its native haunts, for it is confined to the 

 southern part of Nepal, where no Caucasian is admitted. It lives in the moss-hung oak 

 and spruce forests which cover the maze of tumbled mountain ranges of this little kingdom, 

 and is trapped wholesale by the Nepalese shepherds. 



Plate XXIII. BLACK-BACKED KALEEGE Gennaeus melanonotus (Blyth) 



Painted by G. E. Lodge. Facing page 30 



Deep in the mossy, humid forests of Sikhim I have watched a pair of these pheasants 

 picking among the fallen leaves, and murmuring to each other in low musical tones. Later 

 the hen made her way to her nest among the ferns at the base of a great tree, and the cock 

 mounted slowly, branch by branch, to a lofty perch, and night settled quietly down over the 

 Himalayan wilderness. 



Plate XXIV. PLUMAGES OF THE BLACK-BACKED KALEEGE Gennaeus 



melanonotus (Blyth) . . . . . . . Facing page 40 



Drawn by H, Gr'dnvold. 



Even when young Black-backed Kaleege have moulted late, the shape, pattern and colour 

 of the adult plumage are not fully attained until after the first year. 



Fig. I. Chick in down four days old, collected in Sikhim, May 20th. 



Fig. 2. The sexes are clearly distinguishable in the juvenile plumage, the female showing 



much warmer, more buffy tones, especially on the head, back and tail. In 



this individual, the down is still present on the face, concealing the reddish 



skin beneath. 

 Fig. 3. The juvenile male is darker throughout, with narrower white tips to the feathers. 



The incoming dark, central tail-feathers are not clear black, but coarsely 



vermiculated with grey. 



Plate XXV. BLACK-BREASTED KALEEGE Gennaeus hors/ieldi (Gray) 



Painted by G. E. Lodge. Facing page 



Among the moss-hung forests and the bamboo thickets of north-eastern Burma, I first 

 heard the bubbling murmur and cackle of this pheasant. In pairs or in small flocks they 

 work slowly through the ferns and over fallen logs, their scarlet facial skin glowing like the 

 ginger blossoms beneath their feet. A grouse-like whirr of their wings, or the • sound of 

 scratching among dry leaves would often indicate their presence, but they were always on 

 the alert, watching and listening for danger with keen eyes and ears. 



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