690 Notes on the Nidification of Indian Birds. [Dec. 



wattles" whereas in living specimens of the latter species, the wattles 

 are of a bright metallic ultramarine blue ; those on the head are usually- 

 concealed beneath the feathers, and are only occasionally exserted when 

 the bird is excited, but never erected as represented in plate 46. Again 

 Plate 47 represents no phase of plumage of T. Hastingsii s while Plate 

 48, purporting to be a female, is in all probability the young male of 

 some other species, — but is assuredly not the female of T. Hastingsii, 

 which is correctly figured by Gould in his Century of Himalayan Birds ; 

 a comparison of his plate with that of Mr. Gray's 111. Ind. Zool. will, I 

 think, be sufficient to convince any one of the total distinctness of the 

 birds represented. I therefore reject Gray's Synonymes in toto, and 

 retain T. Hasting sii as an undoubtedly good species, peculiar to the 

 snowy regions of the North Western Himalaya ; while Satyra melano- 

 cephala, if it be a species at all, must be sought for farther to the East- 

 ward of the range.* At Simla called " Jahjee ;" at Mussooree " J wire " 

 by Europeans the "Argus Pheasant." 



* We doubt altogether the existence of more than two Himalayan species of this 

 genus, Hastingsii in the N. W., and cornutus in the S. W. A third exists in the 

 Chinese TemmincMi ; and fine specimens of all are in the Society's Museum. — E. B. 



