. Birds. Birds. 96 â PHASIANID^. Key to the Species. (Males only.) a. Lower back white, rump purple L. refiOgms, p. 96. h. No white on back or rum^ L. impeyanus,^. 97. Lower back and rump white -^. sdaten, p. 98. c, 1342. lophophorus refnlgens. The Mmdl. Lophophoms refnlgens, Temm. Pig. et Gall, ii, p. 355 (1813) ; iij, p. 673», OgUvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 278. t> (z « Lophophorus impeyanus, a'pud Blyth, Cat. p. 246; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 500; MitcheU, ibid. p. 545, pis. 147 (young), 149, fig. 5 i&ors): Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 510 ; Stoliezka, J. A. S. B. xxxvu,pt. 2, p. 67 ; B
. Birds. Birds. 96 â PHASIANID^. Key to the Species. (Males only.) a. Lower back white, rump purple L. refiOgms, p. 96. h. No white on back or rum^ L. impeyanus,^. 97. Lower back and rump white -^. sdaten, p. 98. c, 1342. lophophorus refnlgens. The Mmdl. Lophophoms refnlgens, Temm. Pig. et Gall, ii, p. 355 (1813) ; iij, p. 673», OgUvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xxii, p. 278. t> (z « Lophophorus impeyanus, a'pud Blyth, Cat. p. 246; Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 500; MitcheU, ibid. p. 545, pis. 147 (young), 149, fig. 5 i&ors): Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 510 ; Stoliezka, J. A. S. B. xxxvu,pt. 2, p. 67 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 71; Hume, N. 8r E. p. 520; Hume 4- Manh. Game B. i, p. 125, pi; Sume, Cat. no. 804; SciMy, S. F. viii, p. 342; Fairbrother, S. F. ix, p. 203; Wardlaw Baimay, Ibis, 1880, p. 70; Oates in mime's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ni, p. 407 ; «ec Lath. The Monaul Pheasant, Jerdon ; Lmt S, Bam 2, Nil-moi; Jangli-mor, Kashmir; iVt^rwr, Chamba; Mundl, Nil, 3,Karari 2, Kulu; MuntU, Ghar-mmdl, Matia Kawan, Batnal, Ratkap, N. W. Himalayas; Daiiya, Kumaun and Garhwal; Dajia, Nepal; Fo-dong, Lepcha; Chamdong, Bhot. (Sikhim).. Fig. 18.âHead of L. re/ulgetis, cJ. Coloration. Male. Head and crest of spade-shaped feathers, bend of wing, and upper tail-coverts brilliant metallic green; at the sides behind the ear-coverts is a purple patch ; back and sides of heck coppery bronze, passing into the bronze-green of the upper back; interscapulars, scapulars, wing-coverts, and rump metallic purple, with the tips of the feathers blue or greenish blue; lower back white; quills black, secondan'es glossed with green on the outer webs; tail-feathers pale cinnamon, darker towards' the ends ; lower parts dull black, glossed with metallic green on the throat and fore neck, along a stripe on each side of the upper breast, and on the lower tail-coverts. Female. Brown ; the feathers of the head and neck above and at tjie sides, upper back and wing-coverts black, with buS streaks and mo
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