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black band round the tbroat. Tail coverts white and chestnut. Sides of the 
body spotted grey. Female—hardly distinguishable from the male crimson 
horned pheasant, but blacker above. Length of male, 24 inches ; wing, 10 
inches; tail, inches; legs, brown; irides, brown; skin round the eye, 
orange ; horns, blue ; bib, yellow, tinged with blue. 
THE MONAL PHEASANT. 
Lophophorus Impeyanus. Native names : Lout, male; Ham, fern.; Neel - 
mokur , Jungli mohur , Kashmir; Neelgur , male ; Nulwai, fern., Chamba; 
Mortal , Kula and Central Himalayas; Damphia, Nepal; Phodongpho , Sikhim. 
Habitat. —Throughout the Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikhim. 
Description. —Male —crest and head bright metallic green ; mantle bronze 
green ; back of the neck copper colour. Upper back, rump, tail coverts purple, 
back white. Tail chestnut, lower plumage black. Female—crown and sides of 
head, neck and mantle and upper back, blackish, with irregular rufous shaft 
streaks and lines, rump brown, marked with black ; tail black with rufous cross 
bars tipped with white, chin and throat white, lower plumage brown. Length of 
male, 26 inches ; wing, 11J inches ; tail, 0 inches (female smaller); legs, greenish; 
irides, brown ; bill, dark brown ; face skin, blue ; weight about 5 lbs. 
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