. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . to 28-5 ; wing 10 to io-6 ; tail 10 to 11-5 ; tarsus3*25 to 375; bill from gape 1-4 to 1-5. Females—21-5 to 2375 ; wing 8-5 to9; tail 8 to 10; tarsus 3 to 3*25 ; bill from gape 1*25 to 1*45. —The higher wooded ranges of the Central and Eastern Himalayas,westwards to Kumaon and the western portions of Garhwal. Found in suitablelocalities throughout Nepaul and Sikkim and well into Bhootan. Occurs also inthe Dafla Hills and in the vicinity of Darjeeling. Br
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . to 28-5 ; wing 10 to io-6 ; tail 10 to 11-5 ; tarsus3*25 to 375; bill from gape 1-4 to 1-5. Females—21-5 to 2375 ; wing 8-5 to9; tail 8 to 10; tarsus 3 to 3*25 ; bill from gape 1*25 to 1*45. —The higher wooded ranges of the Central and Eastern Himalayas,westwards to Kumaon and the western portions of Garhwal. Found in suitablelocalities throughout Nepaul and Sikkim and well into Bhootan. Occurs also inthe Dafla Hills and in the vicinity of Darjeeling. Breeds at elevations offrom 9,000 to 12,000 feet in the forests that lie below the snow. Eggs, in size,are like large hens eggs, white, freckled with dull lilac. 71. Ceriornis melanocephalus {Gray\ Gould, Cent. Bim. 63, 64, 65 ; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 517, No. 806; Hime and Marsh., GameBirds \.\). I43. Phasianus nipalensis {Gray, the female), Hardiv., III. i. pis. 46, 47, 48 and 2 pi. 40; Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. pi.; Murray, Ind, ii. p. 535, No. 1195.—The Simla Horned Pheasant or theWestern Head of Ceriornis melanocephalus. Head black, crest tipped with red; nape, the back and sides of neck darkred ; back and upper parts dark brown, minutely barred irregularly with black,each feather with a round white spot on a black ground : shoulder of wingdark red ; quills blackish, mottled and barred with brown ; some of the wingcoverts with dusky olive spots ; tertiaries mottled like the back and like thescapulars have a large white spot; upper tail coverts lengthened, the lateral 56 PHASIANIN^. feathers with a large fulvous tip edged with dull black and white spotted ; tailblack, unspotted towards the tip, but barred with white, brown for the greaterpart of its length ; beneath, the throat and neck below the wattle vivid scarlet,passing into flame colour and yellow on the lower part of the neck; breast andlower parts black, dashed with dull red, a
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