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PHASIANID^. 



Adult male. Top of the head rich brown ; back of the neck grey, 

 broadly edged on one or both webs with black, and irregularly 

 barred here and there with pale buff and rust ; middle feathers of 

 the upper back reddish brown, largely blotched on either web with 

 black and with one or two oblique wavy rust-coloured bars, those 

 on the sides have a wide pale buff shaft-stripe and the outer web 

 greyish vermiculated with buff and dusky and partially edged with 

 chestnut and black. Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts grey 

 mottled with pale buff, and some have black spots at the end of the 

 shaft. The scapulars and outer secondaries are chestnut vermicu- 

 lated with buff and dusky, and margined round the extremity with 

 black often tipped with buff. The primaries, secondaries, and 

 primary-coverts are brown, with irregular bars of rufous buff on the 

 outer web, the outer secondaries being also washed with rufous 

 towards the extremities. E,est of the wing-coverts buff mottled 

 wdth grey or black, and with a large buff-coloured patch at the 

 extremity. Kest of the head, chin, throat, and upperside of the 

 neck rusty chestnut ; the edges of the superciliary stripe and ear- 

 coverts and a narrow line of feathers from the nostril to the gape 

 blackish. Rest of the neck and chest grey, shading into rufous- 

 buff on the breast and rest of underparts. Tail reddish brown 

 with wavy transverse bars of buff and black. Iris light brown. 

 Bill black. Feet reddish grey or white. Tarsi provided with a 

 pair of short stout spurs. Total length 14'6 inches, wing 7*7, tail 

 3-5, tarsus 2-2. 



An immature male has the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts bright buff clouded with diisky, as in the adult female, and 

 the feathers of the chest are rufous buff, mixed with grey towards 

 the shaft; otherwise the plumage is much the same as in the 

 adult. 



A quite young male resembles the female in general plumage, but 

 the feathers all round the neck have buff shaft-stripes and the 

 chin, throat, and cheeks, middle of the beUy, and thighs are 

 whitish. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the neck and 

 cheek rufous chestnut, and the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts buff without much grey. Iris reddish brown. BUI black. 

 Feet pale flesh-colour or whitish. Tarsi provided with a short 

 stout pair of spurs. Total length 13*6 inches, wing 7*7, tail 3-3, 

 tarsus 2-1. 



Hah. Same as that of genus. 



a, b. S 2 fid. sk. Purlis, Malay Peninsula India Museum [P.]. 



(Dr. Cantor), 



cjd. S inim. et Klang, Selangore, Oct. Hume Coll. 



2 ad. sk. ( W. Davison). 



^-9- d 2 ^-^- sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse Piiiwill 



[P.]. 



h, i. cJ ad. et Malacca, May {Dr. A. C. Tweeddale Coll. 



imm. sk. Maingay). 



k. (S ad. sk. Jobore, Jan. Hume Coll. 



