﻿KASHMIR 
  KOKLASS 
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  tail 
  tends 
  to 
  become 
  diminished 
  and 
  obliterated 
  in 
  biddulphi. 
  In 
  many 
  ways 
  the 
  majority 
  

   of 
  specimens 
  of 
  biddulphi 
  are 
  more 
  akin 
  to 
  castanea 
  than 
  to 
  macrolopha, 
  as 
  we 
  may 
  see 
  

   from 
  the 
  following 
  comparison. 
  

  

  P. 
  biddulphi 
  presents 
  the 
  following 
  characters 
  : 
  

  

  macroIopha-Wke. 
  castanea-Vike. 
  

  

  Pale-shafted 
  scapulars. 
  Chestnut 
  on 
  mantle. 
  

  

  Grey 
  ventral 
  plumage. 
  Secondaries 
  with 
  reduced 
  chestnut. 
  

  

  Rectrices 
  with 
  reduced 
  chestnut. 
  

  

  Darkening 
  of 
  chestnut. 
  

  

  Since 
  Captain 
  Marshall 
  described 
  this 
  form 
  thirty-five 
  years 
  ago, 
  little 
  has 
  been 
  

   recorded 
  of 
  its 
  habits. 
  Baker 
  records 
  that, 
  like 
  the 
  Common 
  Koklass, 
  the 
  Kashmir 
  bird 
  

   nests 
  in 
  forests 
  of 
  pine 
  and 
  fir, 
  and 
  lays 
  its 
  eggs 
  in 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  leaves 
  and 
  rubbish 
  

   under 
  a 
  thick 
  bush 
  or 
  near 
  a 
  tree. 
  The 
  eggs 
  are 
  usually 
  five 
  or 
  six 
  in 
  number. 
  A 
  set 
  

   of 
  six 
  averaged 
  49-8 
  by 
  36'2 
  mm. 
  These 
  birds 
  keep 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  ground, 
  and 
  find 
  

   their 
  food 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  forest 
  glades 
  day 
  after 
  day. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Pucrasia 
  macrolopha 
  Adams 
  (nee 
  Lesson), 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1859, 
  p. 
  186; 
  Davidson, 
  Ibis, 
  1898, 
  p. 
  39; 
  Ward, 
  

   Jour. 
  Bomb. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Soc, 
  XVII. 
  1907, 
  p. 
  944. 
  

  

  Pucrasia 
  biddulphi 
  Marshall, 
  Ibis, 
  1879, 
  pp. 
  461, 
  463 
  ; 
  Marshall, 
  Jour. 
  fiir. 
  Orn. 
  1879, 
  p. 
  424; 
  Marshall, 
  Stray- 
  

   Feathers, 
  VIII. 
  1879, 
  p. 
  445 
  ; 
  Hume, 
  Stray 
  Feathers, 
  VIII. 
  1879, 
  p. 
  449 
  ; 
  Grant. 
  Cat. 
  Game-birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus. 
  XXII. 
  

   1893, 
  p. 
  313 
  ; 
  Grant, 
  Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  I. 
  1895, 
  p. 
  284; 
  Blanford, 
  Fauna 
  Brit. 
  India, 
  Birds, 
  IV. 
  1898, 
  p. 
  86; 
  

   Sharpe, 
  Hand-list 
  Birds, 
  I. 
  1899, 
  p. 
  36. 
  

  

  Pucrasia 
  macrolopha 
  biddulphi 
  Beebe, 
  Zoologica, 
  I. 
  No. 
  15, 
  1914, 
  p. 
  278 
  ; 
  Baker, 
  Jour. 
  Bomb. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Soc. 
  

   XXV. 
  1918, 
  p. 
  535. 
  

  

  