29. LOPurRA. 289 



Euplocomiis ifjiiitus, Oraji, Lisf. of B. pt. iii. p. 2(j (1844); MiilUr, 

 I'erhnmU. Land- en Volkvnk. p. o76 (1839-44) [liaujannasin] ; Low, 

 -SV(;-«Hv//,-, p. 411 (1848); Sharpe, Ihk, 1879, p. 270 [Lawas aud 

 ^leiifraliinf,' Kivurs) ; v. Pch. Verh.Ges. l('ien,xxix. p. oJJl (1880) ; 

 S/iarpc, r. Z. S. 1881, p. 800 [Sandakan] ; Nichols. Ibis, 1883, p. 90 

 [Silaml; Elliot, Auk, \m. p. 15 (1891) [Kinabataiigan R., N.E. 

 Honiei)]. 



(lallDpliasis ignitus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 498 (184o). 



Eiiplocaiims nobilis, !Sclaf. P. Z. 8. 18(33, p. 118, pi. xvi. : id. List of 

 J'liii.s\ p. 7 (lsc.;5) ; Gray, List Gallin(e Brit. Mm. p. 35 (1867) ; 

 tSclaf. P. Z. 8. 18(i8, p. 2U1 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 259 (1870) ; 

 Elliot, P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 138 : Waldm, Ibis, 1872, p. 382 ; Elliot, 

 Man. Phas. ii. pi. 27 (1872) ; Salrad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 306 (1874) ; 

 Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 414 ; Shnrpe, Iln.s, 1879, p. 234 [Sarawak] ; 

 8elat. Iliis, 18S0, p. 371 : Guillem. P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 41G [Silani, 

 Saudakan] ; Everett, List B. Born. p. 199 (1889) [N. & S. Borneo]. 



AduU male. Short feathers on the head, chin, and throat black ; 

 crest, neck, mantle, chest, upper breast, scapulars, and upper tail- 

 coverts purplish blue ; wing-coverts tipped with steel-blue : lower 

 l)ack and rump fiery bronze-red ; lower breast aud upper belly fiery 

 bronze-gold ; rest of uuderparts black, some of the feathers tipped 

 with steel-blue. Quills aud the fifth to the eighth pairs of tail- 

 featliers black, fourth pair bhick, tipped with buff, third pair mostly 

 buff, partially black on the outer web, and the two centre pairs 

 uniform dark buff. Bill horny white, large smalt-blue wattles 

 surrounding the eye and covering the sides of the head ; legs and 

 feet red. Total length 23 inches, wing lO-.l, tail S'4, tarsus 4-4. 



A (fuite young male has the plumage mostly like that of the young 

 female, but the back of the head, middle of the nape, and the centres 

 of the upper feathers are mostly black, slightly glossed on the margin 

 with steel-blue. 



Adult female. Head, crest, mantle, and wing-coverts uniform 



Loi'huha, sp. 



Fire-backed Pheasant, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 184 (1823). 

 Macartneya niacartneyi, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 493 (1831). 

 Euplocaimis ignitus, Sclai. {ntc Shaw Sc Nodd.), P. Z. S. 1863, p. 118; 



Sclat. P. Z. S. 1H75, p. 380; Hume, Sir. F. v. p. 119 (1877); Elliot, 



Ibis, 1878, pp. 124, 411. 



Adult male. Kesembles the male of L. iynita, but differs in having the 

 feathers down the ceutrc of the lower breast and belly entirely black, those on 

 the sides niarp:ined or larpely mixed with black, only the central part in some 

 being rufous chestnut, and the central tail-feathers are white. 



This specimen was sent by Mr. J. R. Reeves from China, and has evidently 

 been in captivity, for some of the quills of both wings liave been cut. Elliot is 

 of opinion that this specimen is a hybrid between L. iynita. Shaw & Nodd., and 

 L. riifa, Gray ; but I can see no reason for this conjecture, and were it not for 

 the fact that this bird was not shot in a wild state I should have no hesitation 

 in describing it as a distinct species. 



Since writing tlie above I liave seen a second almost similar living specimen 

 in the collection of Mr. E. W. Marshall at Marlow, but was unable to discover 

 whence it had been obtained. 



a. S ad. sk. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



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