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Description.—'Male head blue; upper neck and mantle covered with 
rounded, greenish, bronze feathers with a purplish centre and narrow black 
margin, b irst ten wing quills chestnut, remainder black or dark brown. Wing 
coverts green and purple, not barred. Other parts resemble the common variety, 
hemale resembles the male except that the inner feathers of the wing are 
barred and mottled with buff. The back and rump are brown barred with buff 
without the brilliant scale-like feathers. Length of male (with train), 90inches; 
y r 1 m ?» 19 inches ; tail, 22 inches ; legs, dark brown ; brides, dark brown; bill, 
black , weight, 11 lbs. Naked skin of face partly yellow, partly blue. 
THE CHEER PHEASANT. 
Catreus TT allichii. Natives names : CJiihir , Nepal; Cheer , Kumaon and 
Gaihwal, Buncheel , Mussoorie ; ( hummun , Chamba, Kulu, etc. 
. lower Hima % as > f rom Nepal to Chamba, at elevations from 
4,000 to 10,000 feet. 
Description.—Male —crown anc * crest brown ; throat and neck ring whitish. 
Mantle, back, wing coverts, pale buff barred with black, with a narrow grey tip 
and a bar of pale blue. Rump, chestnut, barred with black; tail, buff, barred 
