244 LLOYD S NATURAL HISTORY. 



First flight-feather shorter than the second, which is about 

 equal to the tenth ; fifth and sixth sHghtly the longest. 



A large naked red or blue patch on each side of the head, 

 and a large wattle of the same colour on each side of the throat. 



Male with a full crest, composed of more or less long bare 

 shafts, with a bunch of plumes at the tip. Feet armed with a 

 pair of stout spurs (absent in the female). 



L THE MALAYAN CRESTED FIRE-BACK. LOPHURA RUFA. 



Fhasiamis ig?iitus, Raffles {7iec Shaw), Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 



320 (1822) [male]; Vieillot, Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 363, 



pi. 237, fig. 2 (1823). 

 Phasianus rufus^ Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 321 (1822) 



[female]. 

 Eiiplocamus vieilloti, Gray, List Gen. B. 2nd ed. p. 77 (1841) ; 



Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 15 (1852); Sclater and Wolf, Zool. 



Sketches (2), pi. 36 (1867); Hume and Marshall, Game 



Birds of India, i. p. 213, pi. (1878). 

 Euplocamus igniius, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 26 (1872). 

 Euploca7nus stimatraiius^ Dubois, Bull. Ac. Belg. (2), xlvii. 



p. 825 (1879). 

 Lophura rufa^ OgilvieGrant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 286 



(1893). 



Adult Male. — General plumage, including the crest, back, and 

 under-parts, black, beautifully glossed with purplish-blue ; lower 

 back and rump fiery bronzy-red ; feathers of the sides afidflaiiks 

 tvith ivhite (or sometimes chestnut) shaft-stripes^ ; middle pairs 

 of tail-feathers white; naked sides of the head and wattles 

 bright smalt-blue; feet bright red. Total length, 27 inches, 

 wing, ii'6; tail, 10*2; tarsus, 4*3. 



Adult Female. — General colour above chestnut, redder and 

 darker on the fieck and finely mottled with black ; feathers of 



* In some examples, especially in Sumatran birds (the Eiiplocajuus 

 sumatratiHS, Dubois, quoted above), the shaft-stripes are rufous-buff or 

 chestnut instead of white, but this difference is not dependent on locality, 

 and is apparently of no specific importance. 



