PLATE XXIII 



BLACK-BACKED KALEEGE 



Gennaeus melanonotus (Blyth) 



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. 



