. Birds. Birds. PUCK ASIA. 83 Phas. 1, pi. 28; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 125; Hume, S. F. v. p. 138; vii, p. 124. Pucrasia biddulphi, G. F. L. Marsh. Ibis, 1879, p. 461; id. S. F. Yiii, p, 445. Plds, Kashmir; Kukrola, Chamba; Koak, Kulu, Mandi; Koklds, Kokla, Simla to Almora; Pokrds, Bhote Pergunnahs of Kumaun and Garhwal and Western Fig. 16.—Head of P. macrolvpha, ^ Coloration. Male. Median occipital crest fawn-coloured, the very elongate lateral posterior tutts with the whole head, nape, and throat black, richly glossed with dark green ; a large oblong white spot at each side of the neck ;
. Birds. Birds. PUCK ASIA. 83 Phas. 1, pi. 28; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 125; Hume, S. F. v. p. 138; vii, p. 124. Pucrasia biddulphi, G. F. L. Marsh. Ibis, 1879, p. 461; id. S. F. Yiii, p, 445. Plds, Kashmir; Kukrola, Chamba; Koak, Kulu, Mandi; Koklds, Kokla, Simla to Almora; Pokrds, Bhote Pergunnahs of Kumaun and Garhwal and Western Fig. 16.—Head of P. macrolvpha, ^ Coloration. Male. Median occipital crest fawn-coloured, the very elongate lateral posterior tutts with the whole head, nape, and throat black, richly glossed with dark green ; a large oblong white spot at each side of the neck ; upper parts to the rurap grey with a brownish tinge, browner on the wing-coverts and scapulars, each feather with a broad black lanceolate shaft-stripe, varying greatly in breadth, and confined, in old birds of the typical variety, to the basal half of the feathers on the sides of the lower back and rump ; scapulars and rump-feathers often with rufous shaft-stripes; quills dark brown, with isabelline-bufE outer borders; later second- aries more or less mottled with rufous near the shafts ; long upper tail-coverts and middle tail-feathers varying from dull rufous to chestnut, with grey tips; outer recfrices black, shading into chestnut on the outer webs towards the base, and narrowly tipped , white ; fore neck, middle of breast and of upper abdomen chestnut; sides of breast and flanks like back; lower abdomen dull rufous, palershafted; under tail-coverts mixed chestnut and black. Female, Crown black, mixed with rufous or buff; a short occipital crest, dark brown in front, buff with black spots behind ; supercilia buff; forehead and sides of head buff, with blackish borders to feathers; ear-coverts black and rufous; upper parts generally brown, the feathers with rufous-buff shaft-stripes, black lateral blotches, and the tips and edges nuic-h mottled with pale grey and buff, especially on the wings and rump ; tips of scapulars and of some wing-coverts whitish ; quills brown, mot
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