2S. ACOML'S. 9gg 



Aleotropliasis pyronota, Gra;/, List of B. pt. iii. Gull. p. 2G (1844) 

 (-Tdlophasis inronotius, 6Vay, Gen. B. iii. p. 498 (184o) 



TiS) '''' P"'''^"'^^"^' ^'««'«- -'^'S'., i?o««/». C.ii." xlii. p. 87y 



Euplocomus pyronotus, fr'/w/, 7/r,„f/-/. B. ii. p. 259 (1870) • EUiU 

 Mon. Phas. u pi. 29 (1872); Salvad. Ucr. Born. ^r>. 307 \W74) ■ 



p. 68 (lb8,i) [Lihon- Eahaja ; E.orett, LUt B. Born. p. 199 (1889) 

 Acoiuus pyronotus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 2o9 (1»70) 

 1 hasianus personatus, Blyth, Ibis, 1870 p 174 



having the neck and mantle grey finely mottled with black, each 

 feather w:th a white shaft; the chest, breast, and sides of the bel y 

 a 1 with nai-row white shaft-stripes. Total length 20 inches, winl 

 ^) o, tali o-/, tarsus 3-3. ° 



lotal length Ib-o inches, wing S-4, tail 5, tarsus 3-15. 

 nab. Sarawak, Borneo. 



c ' J" ^ ?,1 ""i'^" ?^'''"'', ^'''''"^''' •^"""' ^^"^- C. Hose, Esq. [C.l 

 c,a. ci act. SK. Sarawak. T?o,"„i, o i yX^A 



e,f. d 2 ad. St. Sarawak. 5^^!^ £°t' fp"} 



5^. d ad. sk. Sarawak. a '•'■p ?,'-°?^ LP-]. 



A-dad.sk. [China.] j/r^.' Reeves, Esq. 



[P.]._ (Type of the 



A. R. Wallace, E'sq. 



[aj. 



R. Ret 



[P.].. (T. 

 species.) 



3. Acomus inornatus. 



Acnnius inornatus Salvcul Ann Mus.Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 250 (1879) ; 

 Id. F.Z.S. IH'9 p bol, pi. .xlvm. Mount Singalan. West Coast o f 

 Sumatra^: '""'''"'f"-' ""■ ^^V^' ^^- i- P- -^(1887) [Padang; W 



Ad^Ot male (tj-pe)*. Resembles the females of both A. eruthro- 

 phtkahnus and .4. pyronotus in general appearance, but may be at 

 onc.recogn,zed by Its hirger size, deep black colour all oveJ, even 

 on the head, and by having all the feathers of the upper parts back 

 upper tail-coverts and wing-coverts, and also the foaJhers^of the neck 

 and bn>ast. distinctly and sharply edged with shining dark bluish 

 green, turning to blue near the hind neck, so that all these part 

 appear beautifully scaled; this scale-like appearance is completely 



wnte. on the label of the type sp^J^,:; '■ Th: V \:::^^Z;^^TZ 

 to wa^ the fonmle of L. rufa " ' P'^"*"'^''.^ ""> bird referred 



