1 64 THE KOKLASS. 



brownish red than that displayed in some of these blotches, and 

 eggs of this species of the boldly-coloured type are, I think, the 

 handsomest of all our Indian game birds' eggs. Taken as a 

 body, they are very like miniature Moonal eggs, and they also 

 remind one much of those of the European Black Grouse. 



The eggs vary very much in size, viz., from 1*85 to 2*29 in 

 length, and from 1*39 to 1*57 in breadth ; but the average of fifty 

 eggs is 2*08 by 1*47. 



Males measure. — Length, 23 to 25*5 ; expanse, 29*0 to 30*5 ; 

 wing, 9*25 to io*o ; tail from vent, 9-3 to 11*25; tarsus, 2*65 

 to 2*85 ; bill from gape, 1*3 to 1-52. Weight, 2 lbs, 2 ozs. to 

 2 lbs. 14 ozs. 



The bill black or blackish dusky ; the irides dark brown ; 

 the legs and feet varying, in some purplish horny, in some 

 ashy, with a slight fleshy tinge ; in some greyish horny, a pale 

 horny blue in front and dingy brown behind. 



Females — Length, 2075 to 22'0 ; expanse, 27*5 to 28-5 ; wing, 

 8*2 to 8-9 ; tail from vent, 7*2 to 8*5 ; tarsus, 2*47 to 2*55 ; bill from 

 gape, 1*38 to 1*46. Weight, 1 lb. 10 oz. to 2 lbs. 



The bill dark horny ; the irides dark brown ; the legs and 

 feet pale plumbeous, or horny grey. 



The Plate does not represent a typical macro lopha. The 

 black central stripes to the feathers of the upper back, back 

 and sides of neck, and sides of breast and body, are not in typical 

 macrolopha half the width there shown, while on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts they are almost entirely, at times wholly, 

 wanting in this form. Our plate was drawn from a specimen 

 intermediate between macrolopha and nipalensis, but nearest the 

 former. As far as I can judge, all three supposed species are 

 inseparably connected by an unbroken series of intermediate 

 forms. 



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