
Common Names 
Local names, as usual, vary considerably. Those most 
frequently used in India include the following: 
Kali j General 
Kaleege General 
Kukra Hindi, northern India 
Murghi Kali j Hindi, northern India 
Kalesur Hindi, northern India 
Kolsa Punjabi, northeastern India 
Rechabo Nepal, Bhutan 
Kar -rhyak Lepcha, Sikkim, western Bhutan 
Mathura Southwest East Pakistan 
Modura Ass am 
Derrik, durug Ass am 
Deodip | Assam 
Inruitip Naga, northern and eastern Assam 
Yit Burma 
Distribution and Relative Abundance 
The range of the four subspecies of kalij covered in this 
report extends for approximately 1,700 miles from the Indus River in 
northeastern West Pakistan to the Irrawady River in western Burma 
and south along the mountains of Assam, Manipur, and Tripura into 
southeastern East Pakistan. The white-crested kalij lives along the 
southwestern flanks of the Himalayas from 1,200 to 11,000 feet. To 
the east, in central Nepal is found the Nepal kalij though seldom above 
10,000 feet. Still further east, in western Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan 
is found the black-backed kalij. The black-breasted kalij occurs in 
Eastern Bhutan, Assam, and southward living generally in the plains and 
hills, commonly at elevations up to 2,500 feet, though specimens have 
been collected in Bhutan up to 6,000 feet. 
For security reasons Foreign Game Introduction Program 
personnel were permitted access only to the southern fringes of kalij 
range, mainly in northwestern India. Here the white-crested kalij, 
often living in close proximity to the red junglefowl, was fairly 
abundant. Ten beaters in one morning put up about 30 birds in thrashing 
out some 800 acres of steep hillsides at the head of a small valley 
west of Simla. Not far away was the "Viceroy's beat" where 50 beaters 
are said commonly to have flushed 50 to 75 birds over a line of six 
guns in a morning. The game warden at Dehra Dun estimated about 100 
kalij as winter residents in and along about three miles of one steep- 
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