Common Birds of Western Himalayas 



than the other doves and has no patch of black- 

 and-white feathers on the sides of the neck, 

 but has a black collar, with a narrow white 

 border, round the back of the neck. 



One other dove should perhaps be mentioned 

 among the common birds of the Himalayas, 

 namely, the bar-tailed cuckoo-dove {Macrofygia 

 tusalia). A dove with a long barred tail, of 

 which the feathers are graduated, the median 

 ones being the longest, may be set down as this 

 species. 



THE PHASIANID^ OR FAMILY OF 

 GAME BIRDS 



The Himalayas are the home of many species 

 of gallinaceous birds. In the highest ranges 

 the snow-cocks, the tragopans, the blood-phea- 

 sant, and the glorious monaul or Impeyan 

 pheasant abound. The foothills are the happy 

 hunting-grounds of the ancestral cock-a-doodle- 

 doo. 



As this book is written with the object of 

 enabling persons staying at the various hill- 

 stations to identify the commoner birds, I do 

 not propose to describe the gallinaceous denizens 

 of the higher ranges or the foothills. In the 



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