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Description, Adult Male and Female. — Line round the base of the 
bill black, followed by a white line extending back over the eye as 
a supercilium ; a second black line is followed by the rich chestnut 
forehead and sides of the crow’n, the centre of the crown is browner 
and mottled with black and white ; nape and hind-neck greyish 
brown mottled with white and, to a less extent, with black ; a broad 
chestnut collar at base of hind neck ; back, rump and upper tail- 
coverts blue-grey barred and stippled with black and more faintly 
with fulvous ; the blue tinge is strongest on the inter-scapidars and 
upper back, and on the latter there are sometimes a few narrow centre 
lines to some of the feathers ; central tail feathers like the upper 
tail-coverts but more boldly barred, lateral tail feathers chestnut 
narrowly edged with black stippled fulvous ; wing-coverts and inner 
secondaries with bold central streaks of pale fulvous bordered with 
black, a few bold bars of deep chestnut and pale fulvous and the rest 
wdth fine stippled lines of black, grey and fulvous ; quills brovm bar- 
red, ^vith light chestnut and whitish; ear-coverts blackish chestnut 
with white bases ; hind cheeks black ; fore cheeks, lores, chin and 
throat fulvous- white with a black border which joins more or less 
with the black of the cheeks ; fore neck white, or creamy white, with 
a narrow chestnut band meeting that on the hind neck ; below white ; 
the centre of the breast with broad black bars, which sometimes 
coalesce and form a more or less complete black patch on the belly ; 
sides of breast and flanks marked with chestnut patches and with 
bold blacldsh-chestnut bars ; vent and under tail-coverts pale fulvous 
or fulvous-white, sometimes marked with tiny bars of speckly black. 
Colours of Soft Parts. — Iris brown or red- brown ; orbital skin deep 
velvety crimson in the breeding season, dull reddish-crimson at other 
times; bill pale horny green; legs and feet greenish brown or pale 
livid greenish. 
Measurements. — Length about 300 mm. ; wing 155 to 165 mm.; 
tail about 86 to 91 mm.; tarsus about 40 to 43 mm.; culmen about 
15 to 17 mm. 
The Female is like the male but a little smaller ; wing about 150 
to 155 mm., and the other measurements in proportion. 
The Young Bird has no tinge of blue-grey above, the chestnut is 
wanting everywhere, and the lower parts are a dull earthy buff, the 
breast with paler stri^ and indefinite narrow bars of dull black. 
The crown, cheeks and ear-coverts are dark brown with white apical 
spots. 
Distribution. — Tibet from the extreme Wiest to the East,, where it 
meets the race Perdix hodgsonice sifanica, a smaller and much less 
richly coloured race. On the West it is found in Ladak, and X.E. 
Kashmir, has been obtained in the N. E. Bhagiratho Valley near 
Gangotri. It occurs in Kumaon and is not rare in some of the higher 
valleys of both Native and British Sikldm. It does not occur, as has 
