DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS. 
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siderably less pointed than those of the Monaul. The 
shell is moderately fine and glossy, showing everywhere 
minute pitted pores, similar to, but much less marked, than 
those of the Pea-fowls. The ground is a pale olive brown, 
which is more or less thinly speckled and spotted, and at 
times blotched with reddish or purplish brown. In size the 
eggs vary from 2*5 to 2-75 in length, and from 1*85 to 1'98 
in breadth. [A. 0. H.] 
816 {bis). Tetraogallus tibetanus, Gould.'"' 
This bird was first met with in the Sanju pass in the 
beginning of August, at an elevation of nearly 17,000 feet. 
* Tetraogallus tibetanus. 
Dimensions. — Male. — Length 20" ; wing, 10*15 ; second primary 
longest ; first primary, O'l ; third primary, 0"25 shorter ; expanse, 31 5 ; 
wings, when closed, reach to within 3*5 of end of tail ; tail from vent, 7 ; 
lateral tail feathers, 2*0 shorter than the pair next the centre, which are 
longest ; tarsus, 185 ; m.id-toe to root of claw, 1*75 ; its claws, straight 
from root to point, 0 45; hind toe, 0*45 ; the claw, 0'J7 ; bill at front, 
from edge of cere straight to point, 1*05 ; from gape, 12 ; height at front, 
at margin of cere, 0*55 ; length of cere on culmen, 0'13. 
Female. — Length, 18 ; wing, 9*4 ; tail from vent, 6"5 ; tarsus, 18 ; 
bill at front, from margin of cere straight to point, 1"05. 
Description. — Male. — Bill orange red, dusky towards the nares ; legs 
and feet coral red. 
Female. — Bill orange at tips, blackish towards nares ; legs and feet 
orange red. 
Plumage. — Forehead and a broad line from the nostrils through the 
lores and eyes, and over the ear-coverts, buffy white ; rest of the top of 
head, occiput, nape, cheeks, side of the head and neck, dull bluish grey, very 
freely and inconspicuously vermiculated with blackish l^rown, and with specks 
and spots of fulvous white. Chin, and a broad line down the centre of the 
throat, slightly fulvous white ; a broad irregular band round the base of 
the neck in front, grey, the feathers vermiculated with dark brown, and 
spotted with slightly vinaceous fawn ; then below this the upper breast, 
white ; then over the middle of the breast a broad irregular band of greyish 
fawn-coloured feathers, all finely vermiculated with dark grey or blackish 
brown. 1 note here that Gould's figure is singularly deficient in failing 
to show the upper gular band, which is very conspicuous in both sexes — in 
the fresh bird at any rate. 
Below the pectoral band the lower breast and abdomen are white, 
generally with a faint creamy or vinaceous tinge, each feather laterally 
margined with black. The vent feathers are fulvous white, the lower tail 
