THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA. 11 



Euplocavms sumatranus, Dubois, Bull. Acad. Belg., (2), xlvii., p. 825 

 (1879) (Sumatra). 



Lophum rufa, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B.M., xxii., p. 268 (1893) ; id, Man. 

 Game-B., i., p. 244 (1895) ; Blanf., Fauna. B. T., iv., p. 87; Gates, Man. 

 Game-B , i., p. 379 (1898) ; Sharpe Hand-L., B., i., p. 34 (1899); Gates, 

 Cat. JEgg8,B.M., i., p. 52 (1901). 



Lophura vieillotti, Buttikofer Notes Ley. Mus., xvii., p. 181 (1895). 



Lophwa sumatrana, Buttikofer, Notes Ley. Mus., xvii., p. 177 (1895). 



Vernacular Names. — Kuock-wah (Siamese) ; Mooah-Mooah, 

 (Malay). • 



Description. — Adult Male. — Plumage above including thick bushy 

 crest, lesser wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts a deep rich metallic 

 purple-violet ; lower back a fiery golden red, passing into a rich 

 copper chestnut on the rump, the concealed bases of these feathers 

 coloured like the upper back ; two pairs of central feathers white, 

 inner webs of third pair white, outer webs of these and whole of 

 remaining tail feathers black, more or less glossed with violet. Wing 

 quills brown, darkest and almost black on the innermost second.'^ries; 

 greater coverts black, glossed, more especially at the edges and tips, 

 with a more decided green tint than that on the back, median 

 coverts where visible the same glossy green. 



Below like the mantle, the sides of the lower breast and flanks 

 with conspicuous white shaft-stripes faintly tinged with chestnut 

 in 8ome specimens ; centre of abdomen black ; vent and thigh- 

 coverts dingy blackish-brown ; imder tail-coverts black glossed with 

 the same colour as that on the wing-coverts. 



Many birds, apparently fully adult, have a curious sprinkling of 

 the finest specks of white arranged as a naiTOw irregular line on 

 each feather of the metallic plumage of the back and with similar 

 terminal lines, but of reddish instead of white, on the wing- 

 quills. 



Birds from Sumatra, it should be noted, have the lines on the 

 flanks chestnut instead of white, but with the material available it 

 is impossible to say whether this is constant and would sufiice to 

 give this form sub-specific rank. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — Irides bright pale red ; facial skin pale 

 smalt blue or bright smalt blue ; bill white or pale fleshy horn ; 

 tarsus in front and toes bright vermilion red, back of tarsus pal.r 

 with soles and claws reddish white ; spur fleshy pink or pale 

 vermilion ; skin of throat showing through the scanty feathering- 

 fleshy pink. (Davison). 



Measurements.— Wing, lO'O" (254-0 mm.)toll-7" (297'1 mm.), 

 average of thirty birds li-3" (286-1 mm.); tail, 9-0" (228-6 mm.) 

 to 12-8" (325-1 mm.), average, 11-3" (286-1 mm.); tarsus, 4-25" 

 (107-9 mm.) to 4-8" (121-9 mm.), average 4-55" (115-5 mm.); 

 spur, 1-25" (31-7 mm.) to 1-7" (43-2 mm.); crests, 1-5" 

 (38-1 mm.) to 1-7" (43-2 mm.). 



