NEPAL KALEEGE 29 
EARLY HISTORY 
Under the name of Coloured Pheasant, Latham mentions this bird as early as 
1787, and three years later he gives it the title Phastanus leucomelanus. Jerdon 
confused it with albocristatus, but its occurrence in ornithological literature has been 
rare, and even to-day we know but little of its haunts or habits, owing to the 
complete isolation and restriction of its native country of Nepal. 
SYNONYMY 
Coloured Pheasant Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. I. 1787, p. 210; id. Gen. Hist., VIII. 1832, p. 203. 
Phasianus leucomelanos Latham, Ind. Orn, II. 1790, p. 633; Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. I. 1791, p. 189; 
Temn. Pig. et Gall., II. 1813, p. 353, III. 1815, p. 670; Viellot, N. Dict. d Hist. Nat., XI. 1817, p. 40; Vigor, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p. 16. 
Nepaul Pheasant Latham, Gen. Hist., VIII. 1823, p. 202. 
Euplocomus leucomelanos Gray, List of Birds, Pt. III. 1844, p. 25 (part). 
Euplocomus leucomelas Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc., 1844, p. 85; id. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. Gall., pl. 14, fig. 79. 
Gallophasis leucomelanos Gray, Genera Birds, III. 1845, p. 498; id. Cat. Hodgs. ed., I. 1846, p. 124; Hutton, 
Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, XVII. Pt. 2, 1848, p. 694. 
Gallophasis albocristatus Jerdon, Birds India, III. 1863, p. 532 (part). 
Euplocomus leucomelanos Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus., 1867, p. 33; id. Hand-list Birds, II. 1870, p. 260. 
Euplocamus leucomelanos Hume, Stray Feathers, VII. 1878, p. 428; Hume and Marshall, Game-birds India, 
I. 1878, p. 185, pl. 
Gallophasts leucomelanus Scully, Stray Feathers, VIII. 1879, p. 345 (Nepal). 
Gennaeus leucomelanus Grant, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 300; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 
1895, p. 262; Oates, Man. Game-birds India, 1898, p. 329; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, IV. 1898, p. 90; 
Donald, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., XII. 1899, p. 577 ?(Kashmir); Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, I. 1899, p. 35; 
Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 17, 1914, p. 320; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., XXIII. 1915, p. 667; Baker, Jour. 
Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., XXV. 1917, p. 172. 
