NEPAL KALEEGE 29 



EARLY HISTORY 



Under the name of Coloured Pheasant, Latham mentions this bird as early as 

 1787, and three years later he gives it the title Phasianus leucomelanus. Jerdon 

 confused it with albocristatus, but its occurrence in ornithological literature has been 

 rare, and even to-day we know but little of its haunts or habits, owing to the 

 complete isolation and restriction of its native country of Nepal. 



SYNONYMY 



Coloured Pheasant Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl, \. 1787, p. 210; id. Gen. Hist., VHL 1832, p. 203. 



Phasianus leucomelanos Latham, Ind. Orn. H. 1790, p. 633; Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. I. 1791, p. 189; 

 Temn. Pig. et Gall., H. 1813, p. 353, HI. 1815, p. 670; Viellot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, XL 1817, p. 40 ; Vigor, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p. 16. 



Nepaul Pheasant Latham, Gen. Hist., VHL 1823, p. 202. 



Euplocomus leucomelanos Gray, List of Birds, Pt III. 1844, p. 25 (part). 



Euplocomus leucomelas Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, p. 85 ; id. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. Gall., pi. 14, fig. 79. 



Gallophasis leucomelanos Gray, Genera Birds, HI. 1845, p. 498 ; id. Cat. Hodgs. ed., I. 1846, p. 124; Hutton, 

 Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, XVII. Pt. 2, 1848, p. 694. 



Gallophasis albocristatus ]erdon, Birds India, III. 1863, p. 532 (part). 



Euplocomus leucomelanos Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus,, 1867, p. 33 ; id. Hand-list Birds, II. 1870, p. 260. 



Euplocamus leucomelanos Hume, Stray Feathers, VII. 1878, p. 428 ; Hume and Marshall, Game-birds India, 

 I. 1878, p. 185, pi. 



Gallophasis leucomelanus Scully, Stray Feathers, VIII. 1879, p. 345 (Nepal). 



Gennaeus leucomelanus Grant, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 300; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 

 1895, p. 262; Oates, Man. Game-birds India, 1898, p. 329; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, IV. 1898, p. 90; 

 Donald, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XII. 1899, p. 577 ? (Kashmir); Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, I. 1899, p. 35; 

 Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 17, 1914, p. 320; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXIII. 1915, p. 66^ ; Baker, Jour. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXV. 1917, p. 172. 



