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Lieut. W. S. Fairbrother (29th P. N. I.), amongst others, writes: ‘* I see that you 
are not aware of the Moonal being found out of the Himalayas, or westward of 
Kashmir. So you may be glad to hear that itis common in the Sufaid Koh here 
(Kurum, Afghanistan). Freshly-killed birds were brought in by the natives to 
Shalozan last winter. The natives here (Turies) all call the Moonal, Awkur, but I 
et say whether this is its specific name, or applied to all Pheasants indiscrimi- 
nately.’ 
Major C. H. T. Marshall says: ‘‘ Here, in Chamba, they call the male Wz/gur, 
and the female Mulwai.” 
THE CRESTLESS MOONAL. (Vol. I., pp. 135, e¢ seg.)— 
For a magnificent male of this species (the first and only specimen that I have as 
yet succeeded in procuring) I have been indebted to Sir S. C. Bayley. 
Looking through my former description, I find that I have omitted one important 
point, and that is, that the basal portions of the tail feathers (completely hidden by 
the upper and under tail-coverts) are black, with a few imperfect narrow white bars. 
The dimensions of this specimen do not differ materially from those given at 
p. 135, but there is a strong spur, o°61 in length, on each leg. 
A female of this species has also at last been obtained from the Mishmis, who 
brought it down to Sadiya, and a description and plate of it have been given in 
the PB. Z.. S. 
The female differs from that of the Common Moonal in having the ground colour 
of the whole lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts creamy, profusely variegated 
by dark brown, and in having the tail feathers (which are black) broadly tipped 
with this same creamy colour, and crossed higher up with numerous, narrow, trans- 
verse, zig-zaggy bars of the same colour. 
The general style of colouration, too, is much more uniform, and the bird is smaller. 
The following is the published description of this female :— 
** Description.—Head and (upper) back very rich dark umber-brown, each feather 
of the former with a V-shaped pale ochre mark ; each of the latter has a centre line 
of a richer brown, finely mottled towards the margins ; a broad extent of the rump 
and upper tail-coverts are pale ochraceous white, very finely and delicately mottled 
with dark brown ; tail above rich black, with six or seven narrow whitish bars, and 
tipped with the same (the counter-colouring of the male) ; shoulder of wing very 
rich dark chestnut brown; the shafts pale ochraceous; primaries rich dark 
umber; secondaries slightly mottled with brown; cheeks and throat dark 
umber, markings like those on the head ; chin white ; breast, abdomen, and thighs 
dull umber, most delicately and finely mottled with pale ochre ; underside of tail 
black, with narrow white bars ; the legs appear to have been of a pale grey, and the 
bill whitish. 
‘* Wing, 11°5 ; tail, about 8; tarsus, 3; bill at front, 1°75.’ Ihave not as yet 
myself seen a female. : 
THE WESTERN TRAGOPAN. (Vol. I., pp. 143, e¢ seg.)— 
An egg of this species will be found figured on the third egg plate at the end of 
this Vol. 
THE CHINESE CRIMSON TRAGOPAN. (Vol. I, p. 154.)— 
When our first volume was published, the occurrence of this species, within our 
limits, was quite unsuspected. 
Capt. H. Stevens, of the 42nd N. I., was the first to procure and recognize the 
distinctness of a specimen of this species brought down to Sadiya by some 
Mishmis. 
There is no certainty of course that the Mishmis, who brought down this specimen, 
procured it in their own hills ; but there is good reason to believe that they did so. 
In the first place, the species is known to occur in Central China, from near Hankow 
to the Eastern hills of Setchuen ; these latter extend to within probably 200 miles 
of the Mishmi Hills, and though believed to be divided from them by at least two, 
if not three, profound river valleys, there would be nothing primd facie to lead us to 
disbelieve in this south-western extension of the bird’s range. 
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