522 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



link between the Pheasants and Partridges, but I cannot agree with 

 Gray in placing it among the Partridges. 



Gen. Ithaginis, Wagler. 



Char. — Bill short, stout ; tail rather short, of fourteen feathers ; 

 tarsus of the male with several spurs ; feathers of the neck some- 

 what elongated ; head sub-crested. Of rather small size. 



The pale grass-green color of the lower plumage of this remark- 

 able bird, and the blood red stains are quite unique. 



807. Ithaginis cruentus, Hardwicke. 



Phasianus, apud Hardwicke, Lin. Trans. XIII. 237 — Blyth, 

 Cat. 1455 — P. Gardneri, Hardwicke (the female) — Gould, Birds 

 of Asia, pt. Ill, pi. 3 — Soomong-pho, Lepch. Semo, Bhot. 



The Green Blood-pheasant. 



Descr. — Male, with the forehead, lores, and cheeks, black ; crown 

 of the head buff"; crest dull grey, with a streak of buff down the 

 centre of each feather; back of the neck and upper surface 

 generally dark grey, with a narrow stripe of buffy white bounded 

 on either side with a stripe of black, down the centre of each 

 feather, the stripes becoming larger and more conspicuous as they 

 proceed backwards, and with a tinge of green on those occupying 

 the lower part of the back and the centre of the greater wing- 

 coverts ; tail grey, fading into greyish white at the tip, the shafts 

 white, and the basal three-fourths of the feathers broadly margined 

 with blood red ; beneath, the throat is blood red ; the ear-coverts 

 black, striated with buffy white, the lower part of the throat 

 brownish black, with a stripe of greenish buff down each feather ; 

 sides of the neck buff ; breast, sides of the abdomen, and flanks 

 very pale green, with light shafts, and the feathers of the breast 

 with a blotch of deep blood-red near the centre of either margin, 

 giving the part the appearance of being stained with blood ; middle 

 of the abdomen, thighs and vent, dark brownish grey, striped 

 with greenish white bounded by black; under tail-coverts deep 

 blood-red, with a narrow line of pale yellow ending in a 

 spatulate form at the tip, down the centre of each feather. 



