AYES. 
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Dr. Scully observes : — “ This fine Pheasant is a permanent resident in the plains of 
as tem Turkestan, frequenting long grass-jungle and reeds growing in waste ground. It is 
Sai d to occur most plentifully in the Dolan jungle, Makit and Maralbashi being mentioned as 
places where it is particularly numerous. However, it is common enough near Kashghar 
:il1( l Yarkand ; I know of two rather good places for this Pheasant, one between Yarkand 
an d Kokrabat, and another near Beshkant. The flight of this bird is rather slow, and it 
c ommonly goes over the long grass only for a short distance and then drops down. When 
ai ‘rued the male bird utters a harsh, shrill cry.” 
Family TETRAONIM. 
277 . 
Caccabis chukor. 
Genus CACCABIS. 
Caccabis pallescens, Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 283 (1873) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 182 (1876). 
Caccabis chukor, Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 275 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 425 (1877) ; 
Hume & Marshall, Game Birds India, ii. p. 33, pi. v. fig. 1 (1879) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, 
P- 70; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 93 ; Scully, ibid, p.586; C. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 119; Sharpe, 
^ Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. y. pt. 3, p. 87 (1889). 
t erdix chukar, Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 91 ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 64 
(1885). 
0l ^2. Dungagally, July 4, 1873. 
275. Kangan, August 7, 1873. 
1 °- 1586. Jungalik, April 27, 1874. 
I his is, to my mind, merely a slightly paler race of the ordinary Himalayan Chukor. 
r - Hume hardly claims for it more than this distinction, but I cannot see that it deserves 
• < ' | n a specific name. The type of C. pallescens was procured by Dr. Henderson at Kharbu 
1 Hadak. 
Although one might have expected the Jungalik bird to have been C. pallescens, it 
d so pHced. In fact it is intermediate, being darker than C. pallescens, but not so 
me aS c ^ u ^ or - My colleague, Mr. Ogilvie Grant, who has studied these Partridges, tells 
e that lie believes that there is a perfect arradation in depth of colour between the two 
“Warned races. 
Caccabis pallidus. 
Caccabis pallidus, Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 284 (1873) ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 183 (1876). 
^°s. 487, 488, pull. Shargol, August 21, 1873 (Afzul Khan). 
_°- 519. Lamaguru, August 23, 1873. 
°- 630. Leh, September 4, 1873. 
°- 881. Kiwaz, October 26, 1874 ( Col. Gordon). 
x. 0 ' U83. Chakmak, January 3, 1874. 
°- 1185. Chakmak, January 4, 1874. 
°* 1420. Cheliil Gombaz, March 25, 1874. 
0s - 1851, 1852. S. Kugiar, June 2, 1874. 
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