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Dr. Scully observes : — '' This fine Pheasant is a permanent resident in the plains of 

 Eastern Turkestan, frequenting long grass-jungle and reeds growing in waste ground. It is 

 said to occur most plentifully in the Dolan jungle, Makit and Maralbashi beiDg mentioned as 

 places where it is particularly numerous. However, it is common enough near Kashghar 

 and Yarkand ; I know of two rather good places for this Pheasant, one between Yarkand 

 and Kokrabat, and another near Beshkant. The flight of this bird is rather slow, and it 

 commonly goes over the long grass only for a short distance and then drops down. When 

 alarmed the male bird utters a harsh, shrill cry." 



Eamily TETEAONID^. 

 Genus CACCABIS. 



277. Caccabis chukor. 



Caccahis pallescens, Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 283 (1873) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 182 (1876). 



Caccabis chukor, Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 275 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 425 (1877) ; 



Hume & Marshall, Game Birds India, ii. p. 33, pi. v. fig. 1 (1879) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, 



p. 70; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 93 ; Scully, ibid. p. 586; C. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 119; Sharpe, 



Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 87 (1889). 

 Perdix chukar, Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 91 ; Zarudn. Gis. Transcasp. p. 64 



(1885). 



No. 92. Dungagally, July 4, 1873. 

 No. 275. Kangan, August 7, 1873. 

 No. 1586. Jungalik, April 27, 1874. 



This is, to my mind, merely a slightly paler race of the ordinary Himalayan Chukor. 

 Mr. Hume hardly claims for it more than this distinction, but I cannot see that it deserves 

 even a specific name. The type of C, pallescens was procured by Dr. Henderson at Kharbu 

 in Ladak. 



Although one might have expected the Jungalik bird to have been (7. pallescens, it 

 cannot be so placed. In fact it is intermediate, being darker than (7. pallescens, but not so 

 dark as C. chukor. My colleague, Mr. Ogilvie Grant, who has studied these Partridges, tells 

 me that he believes that there is a perfect gradation in depth of colour between the two 

 above-named races. 



278. Caccabis pallidus. 



Caccabis pallidus J Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 284 (1873) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 183 (1876J. 



Nos. 487, 488, pull. Shargol, August 21, 1873 (Afzul Khan). 



No. 519. Lamaguru, August 23, 1873. 



No. 630. Leh, September 4, 1873. 



No. 881. Kiwaz, October 26, 1874 {CoL Gordon). 



No, 1183. Chakmak, January 3, 1874. 



No. 1185. Chakmak, January 4, 1874. 



No. 1420. Chehil Gombaz, March 25, 1874. 



Nos. 1851, 1852. S. Kugiar, June 2, 1874. 



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