282 PHASlAXIDiE. 



4. Lophophorus sclateri. 



Lophophoius sclateri, Jerdon, Ibis, 1870, p. 147 pNIishmi Hills] ; id. 

 J. As. Soc. Bene/. 1870, p. 61 ; .Sclat. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 162, pi. xiv. ; 

 Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 261 (1870) ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. pi. 20 

 (1872); Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 488 (1874) [E. Assam]; Hume 8)- 

 Marsh. Game B. Ind. i. p. 136, pi. (1878) [Hills E. & S.E. of 

 Sadiya] ; Godio.-Aust. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 681, pi. Ii. [Sadiva, Eastern 

 Assam] ; Hume, Str. F. ix. p. 203 (1880) [Mishmi Hills] ; id. 

 «r. i^. xi. p. 301 (1888). 



Chalcophasis sclateri, Elliot, Mon. Phas., Introd. p. xix (1872) ; 

 Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 55 (1873). 



Adult male. Top of the head covered Tvith curly bluish-green 

 feathers shot with purple and gold ; ear-coverts the same but not 

 curled ; back and sides of neck reddish copper with dull green 

 reflections : mantle, longer scapulars, and median and greater 

 secondary wing-coverts metallic green with purple reflections ; 

 patch of lesser wing-coverts at the angle of the wing brilliant 

 metallic dark green shot with blue and purple ; shorter scapulars 

 and rest of lesser wing-coverts golden green and reddish copper ; 

 quills and primary-coverts black, the secondaries shghtly glossed 

 with bronze-green on the outer web ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts white, the two former mostly with narrow dark shaft- 

 stripes ; chin, throat, fore part of neck, and rest of underparts rich 

 black, with a slight purplish gloss on tbo sides and flanks ; tail 

 chestnut, with a white terminal band an inch and a quarter wide, 

 the basal part of the feathers black irregularly barred and mottled 

 with buff. Bill yellowish horny ; forehead, lores, and sides of the 

 head bright blue, nearly naked ; legs and feet yellowish brown. 

 Total length 2(i inches, wing 11-8, tail 8-2, tarsus 3-1. 



Adult female. Head and neck very rich dark umber-brown, each 

 feather of the former with a V-^li'^P^d pale ochre mark ; each of 

 the latter has a centre line of richer brown, fiueh' mottled towards 

 the margins. A broad extent of the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 pale ochraceous white, very finely, delicatelj' mottled with dark 

 brown. Tail above rich black, with six or seven narrow whitish 

 bars and tipped with the same (the counter colouring of male) ; 

 shoulder of wing very rich dark chestnut-brown, the shafts pale 

 ochraceous. Primaries rich dark umber ; secondaries slightly 

 mottled with brown. Cheeks and throat dark umber, markings like 

 those on the head ; chin white ; breast, abdomen, and thighs dull 

 umber, most delicately and finely mottled with pale ochre. Under- 

 side of tail black, with narrow white bars. The legs appear to have 

 been of a pale grey and the bill whitish. \_Godwin-Austen.'\ Wing 

 11*5 inches, tail 8, tarsus 3. 



Hob. Hills east and south-east of Sadiya, N.E. Assam. 



a. (S ad. sk. Mishmi Hills, Upper Assam, Zool. Soc. Coll. 



Nov. (Jerdon). (Tvpe of the species.) 



b. d ad. sk. Mishmi Hills, Dec. {Sir S. Hume Coll. 



Bat/let/). 



