Koklass Pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha) [XC473024]
by Peter Boesman from NW of Pangot, Uttarakhand, India (song)
Koklass Pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha) [XC407646]
by Mandar Bhagat from Mud Hut, Chopta\/Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India (song)
Subspecies
Subspecies bethelae may be a clinal form of biddulphi. Many subspecies regarded as intergrades, raising doubts about validity of subspecific taxonomy; a morph of subspecies darwini without chestnut band on underparts was considered a different subspecies, styani.
The following 10 subspecies are recognised:
castanea Gould, 1854 - Eastern Afghanistan east to Pakistan (Chitral).
biddulphi Marshall, GFL, 1879 - Kashmir.
bethelae R. L. Fleming, 1947 - North-western India (Kulu Valley).
macrolopha (Lesson, 1829) - Western Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon.
nipalensis Gould, 1854 - Western Nepal.
meyeri Madarász, 1886 - South-central China (western and south-western Sichuan east to north-western Yunnan); extinct in south-eastern Tibet.
ruficollis David & Oustalet, 1877 - Central China (southern Gansu, Shaanxi and western Sichuan).
xanthospila Gray, GR, 1864 - North-eastern China (Shaanxi Neast through western Hebei and south-eastern Inner Mongolia to south-western Manchuria).
joretiana Heude, 1883 - Central-eastern China (Anhui).
darwini Swinhoe, 1872 - Central and eastern China (Hubei, south-eastern Sichuan, Zhejiang and Fujian); extinct in north-western Fujian and northern Guangdong.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet