284 PHAS1ANID.1:. 



Euplocamus erytlirnphthalmos, Gray, List Gallm<s Brit. Mus. p. 35 



(1867) ; id. lland-l. B. ii. p. 259 (1870). 

 Euplocamus purpureus, Gray, List Gallinee Brit. Mus. p. 3G (1867) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 259 (1870). 

 Euplocomus erythroplithalmus, Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 28 (1872). 



Adult male. Top of the head black; neck and chest black glossed with 

 dark purplish blue ; upper back and scapulars the same, wing-coverts 

 and secondaries slightly glossed with steel-blue and all finely marked 

 M'ith irregular wavy white bars ; lower back fiery bronze-gold, 

 shading into fiery bronze-red on the rump ; upper tail-coverts black 

 glossed with steel-blue ; primaries dark brown, slightly vermiculated 

 with whitish buff'; rest of the underparts black, slightly glossed 

 on the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts with purplish or steel-blue, 

 the former are also vermiculated with white. Tail uniform pale 

 rufous buff, blackish towards the base. Pacial skin and wattles 

 bright red ; bill blackish ; legs bluish grey. Total length 20 inches, 

 wing 9*5, tail 6"4, tarsus 3. 



An immature male has much less gloss on the plumage, the under- 

 parts are brownish black, and the outer tail-feathers are mottled all 

 over with black. 



Adult female. Plumage entirely black, glossed with purplish or 

 steel-blue ; soft parts like those of the male. Total length 18-5 

 inches, wing 8'4, tail 5'4, tarsus 2*8. 



Hah. Southern part of the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra. ? Java. 



«. (S ad. st. Indian Archipelago. Capt. Sir E. Belcher 



[P.]. _ 

 b. 9 ad. st. Indian Archipelago. J. Nightingale, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 c-e. cJ 2 ad. sk. Keddah, Malay Peninsula India Museum [P.], 



{Dr. Cantor), 

 f. S ad. sk. Penang {Dr. Cantor). India Museum [P.]. 



<l-k. (S 2 ad. sk. Province Wellesley {Dr. India Museum [P.]. 



Cantor). 

 l-p. 6 ? ad. sk. Malacca (July). Hume Coll. 



(J, r. (S 2 ad. sk. Malacca (Simson). Hume Coll. 



s, t. (S 2 ad. sk. Malacca {Dr. Maingay). Tweeddale Coll. 



u. S ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 V, w. S 2 ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse 



Pinwill [P.]. 

 ■^') y- 6 2 ad. sk. Malacca. W. Harvey, Esq. [P.]. 



z. 2 ad.sk. Malacca (Caw/or). India Museum [P.]. 



«'. (S ad. sk. Singapore (Feb.\ Gould Coll. 



b' , c'. (S ad. et Sumatra {Sir T. Raffles). India Museum [P.]. 



imm. sk. (Types of the species.) 



d' , e'. Skeletons. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



Hybrid hetiveen Acomus erythroplithalmus and GennaBus muthura. 

 a. (S ad. st. England. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



2. Acomus pyronotus. 



Euplocomus erythrothalmus {sic). Gray {nee Briffl.), Illiist. hid. Zool. 

 ii. pi. 38. fig. 1 (1834). 



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