APPENDIX I. 



Synoptical Table of full-plumaged Males. 



It is generally agreed among sportsmen that only full-plum- 

 aged males should be shot among game-birds, at any rate the 

 polygamous species : and even among the pairing kinds there 

 IS apt to be a preponderance of cocks, while, as young cocks are 

 generally Uke hens, if hen-coloured birds are spared, some cocks 

 are sure to be left. Hence, as the common points of cock and 

 hen, where these differ, are often difficult to give concisely, I 

 give only a table of full-plumaged male game-birds. 



Shanks bare throughout or nearly 

 so ; front toes webbed at base ; 

 hind toe small ; wings short and 

 rounded. 



A. Big birds, much larger than 

 fowls, with tail or train four 

 feet long. 



Pheasant and 

 tridge family. 



Par- 



A. 

 A. 



A. 3 

 B. 



B. I. 



B. 2. 



B. 3. 



e. 4. 



e. s. 



Neck blue, a fan-shaped crest. 



Neck green, a lance-head- 

 shaped crest. 



General plumage brown, 

 wings extremely large. 

 Birds about two feet long, with 

 tails not longer than wing. 



Breast red, spotted with 

 white. . 



Breast black, spotted with 

 white. 



Breast red above, grey below, 

 unspotted. 



Breast velvety black 



Breast glossy green 



Common Peacock (p. 10). 

 Burmese Peacock {p. 13). 



A rgus Pheasant (p. 40). 



Crimson Tragopan (p. 28). 



Black Tragopan (p. 29) . 



Grey-breasted Tragopan 



(p. 30). 

 Common Monaul (p. 32). 

 Bronze-backed Monaul 

 (P- 35)- 



