27. LOVIIOPIIORUS. 2Sl 



Adah male. Differs chiefly from L. refnh/ens in having the 

 feathers of the lower back golden green, shading into purjdish 

 blue towards their extremities ; the longer npper tail-coverts dark 

 chestnut with golden-green tips; the purplish golden-bronze of the 

 sides of the neck nearly meeting in front ; the chin, throat, and fore 

 part of neck glossed with pale greenish gold, and the chest and rest of 

 underparts metallic golden green, shading into dark bluish green on 

 the sides. Hanks, and under tail-coverts. Total length 20 inches, 

 wing 11-.5, tail U, tarsus '.i. 



Ilab. Chaniba, tSouth Cashmere. 



a. S <id- *k. Chamha, S. Cashmere, Feb. Col. C. 11. T. 



Marshall [P.]. 

 (Tvpe of L. chambanus, Marsh.) 



b, c. cJ vix ad. sk. Chamba, S. Cashmere.' Col. C. H. T. 



Marshall [P.]. 



3. Lophophorus I'huysii. 



Lophophorus I'huysii, J'<?7V. 4" Geoff. St.-Uil. Bull. Soc. Acclim. 

 (2) iii. p. 223, pl. (1866) [Moupin Dist.], iv. p. 706 (1807) ; &/. 

 P. Z. S. 1868, p. 1, pl. i. ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 297 [Ta-tsien- 

 lou]; Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 261 (1870) ; Stcinh. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 399; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vii. p. 11 (1871); Elliot, 

 Mon. Phas. i. pl. 19 (1872); Gotild, B. As. vii. pl. 54 (1873); 

 Sclafer, Ihin, 1874, p. 169 ; David iy Oustul. Ois. Chine, p. 403, pl. 

 1 10 (1877 ) [Moupin, E. Koko-nor & W. Sze-chuen] ; Seebohm, Ibis, 

 lb91, p. 379 [W. Sze-chueu]. 



Adull male. Differs from L. refuh/ens in the following points : — 

 The occipital crest is purple -bronze and composed of ordinary 

 elongate feathers ; the back of the neck and upper part of the 

 mantle are dark red-gold, shading into bronze-jmrple shot with 

 greenish blue on the lower part of the mantle ; the scapulars and 

 wing-coverts are not so purple and are shot Avith metallic golden 

 green ; the rump-feathers resemble the wing-coverts, but are 

 margined with white; the long up])er tail-coverts, the outer part of 

 both webs of the central pair of tail-feathers, the outer half of the 

 outer webs of the rest, and the extremities of all bluish green shot 

 with blue and purple ; the rest of the tail-feathers (tlie middles of 

 the centre pair, and the greater part of inner web and the inner 

 half of the outer web of the rest) black, irregularly spotted on each 

 side of tlie shaft with white. Bill horn-colour ; naked skin round 

 the eye blue ; legs and feet lead-colour. Total length 30 inches, 

 wing 12-6, tail lO 3, tarsus 33. 



A'l lilt female. May be distinguished at a glance from the female 

 of L. refiilijens, the whole of the lower back being pure white. 



I/itl). ^^'estern Sze-chuen and Eastern Koko-nor. 



") *• c? $ imm. Mountains of Moupin, West- Purchased of M.Verreaux. 

 sk. ern Sze-chuen (i>aA/-y). (Types of the species.) 



