222 PHASIANID^. 



three pairs of spurs in the male {fide Evereft in litt.), none in the 

 female : nail on hallux small but well developed. 



Range. Northern Borneo. 



1. Haematortyx sanguiniceps. 



Hffimatortyx sanguiniceps, Sharpe, IbU, 1879, p. 266 [Lawas Mts.] ; 

 Reich. 4- Schaloiv, J. f. O. 1879, p. 423; Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. 70 

 (1879) ; Everett, List B. Born. p. 200 (1889) ; Hose, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 423 [Mt. Dulit]. 



Adult female. General colour of the plumage blackish brown; 

 top of the head and nape deep crimson, lighter on the sides of the 

 head and cheeks ; chin and throat pale rufous, washed with crimson ; 

 fore part of neck and chest reddish chestnut ; longer under tail- 

 coverts widely tipped with brilliant crimson. 



In an apparently not quite adult example most of the wing- 

 coverts have a rust-coloured spot at the extremity of the shaft, and 

 some of the feathers on the middle of the breast are mottled with 

 reddish chestnut. 



Total length 10"5 inches, wing 6, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-9, middle toe 

 and claw 1'6. 



Hub. Lawas Mts. and Mt. Dulit, in Sarawak. 



a. 2 "fix ad. sk. Mt. Dulit, Sarawak, 5000 ft., C. Hose, Esq. [C], 



November. 



15. CALOPERDIX. 



Type. 

 Caloperdix, Bb/th, Ibis, 1867, p. 160 C. oculea. 



Tail of 14 feathers, less than half the length of the wing. 



1st primary equal to the 10th, 4th to the 6th, sube(iual and 

 longest. 



Tarsi longer than the middle toe and claw, and armed in the male 

 with one or more pairs of spurs ; hallux with rudimentary nail. 



Range. S. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Black feathers of mantle shading gradually into 



the rufous-chestnut nape. 



a. Feathers of mantle ornamented with white 



concentric bands ; chest not mottled and barred 



with black omlea, p. 222, 



b. Feathers of mantle with irregular pale yellow 



transverse bands ; basal half of chest-feathers 



mottled and barred with black suniatrana, p. 224. 



B. Black feathers of mantle sharply defined from 



dark chestnut nape, ornamented with narrow 



concentric white lines borneemis, p. 224. 



1. Caloperdix oculea. 



Perdix oculea, Tem?n. Piff. et Gall. iii. pp. 408 & 732 (1815) ; Vieill. 

 N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 'xxv. p. 227 (1817) ; Steph. in Shows Gen. 

 Zool. xi. p. 353 (1819); Vieill. Tahl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 367 



