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HOUPPIFER ERYTHROPHTHALMUS (Raffles) 



Phasianus erythrophthalmus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 321, 

 1822 (Sumatra). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two males and two females at the 

 Rumpin River, Pahang, June 25-July 6, 1902. He describes the soft 

 parts in the male as follows: Naked skin on side of head red; bill 

 greenish horny, pale brownish at tip; dark brown over nostrils; feet 

 pale leaden, claws pale brown. Weight, 2}{ pounds in one male. 



Tlie males in this species are bluish black, vermiculated with wliite 

 on the upper parts; the rump maroon, the tail cinnamon. The female 

 is plain black, including the tail. The two Malay males when com- 

 pared with six males from Sumatra are more finely vermiculated with 

 white above. In Borneo a related species occurs, Houppifer pyronotus, 

 of which the male differs from the above in having the chest with 

 white shaft streaks and the female purplish black. 



Robinson *° gives the range as throughout the Malay Peninsula 

 south of Kedah to Sumatra. So far as I am aware, Houppifer ery- 

 throphthalmus has not been recorded from Peninsular Siam, but it 

 probably occurs in the southern part. 



LOPHURA RUFA (Raffles) 



Phasianus rufus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 321, 1822 

 (Sumatra) . 



One male, Sichol, Bandon, May 25, 1930. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott secured four males and one female in Trang (Lay 

 Song Hong, November 22 and December 8, 1896; near Kao Nok Ram, 

 January 5, 1899; Trang, January 27 and 29, 1897); four males, Ten- 

 asserim (Telok Besar, February 27-March 21, 1904). 



Dr. Abbott gives the color of the soft parts in the male as: Iris red; 

 bill greenish horny (jade color), nostrils dark; naked parts of head 

 smaltz blue; feet red; spurs horny w^hite. He gives the weight of two 

 Trang males as 4 and 4% pounds; of three Tenasserim males, 4%, 5%, 

 and dYi pounds. This seems to indicate that northern birds are larger. 



Robinson and Kloss *' record it from Nong Kok, Ghirbi, and Tasan, 

 Chimipon ^-; de Schauensee *^ collected a pair at Nakon Sritamarat. 



The species ranges from southern Tenasserim south through Pen- 

 insular Siam to the Malay States and Sumatra, except the southern 

 part. Tasan seems to be about as far north as it goes in Peninsular 

 Siam. 



This is a bird of the dense lowland evergreen forests and is rarely 

 seen ; very little seems to be known of its habits. 



•» Journ. Feilerated Malay States Mus., vol. 1, no. 4, p. 128, 1906. 



•' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 89, 1919. 



•'Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 19, 1921. 



»» Proc. Acad. Nat. Scl. Philadelpliia, vol. 86, p. 274, 1934. 



