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PHASIANID^. 



chestnut, gradually shading into darker on the lower back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and greater wing-coverta, all of which are finely 

 vermiculated with black. Quills brownish black, the primaries 

 washed and the secondaries mottled with rufous on the outer web ; 

 chin and throat white ; neck and chest chestnut, margined with 

 white on the sides ; breast and sides of the belly black, sometimes 

 mottled with chestnut, and edged all round with white ; rest of 

 underparts white, somewhat mottled with black. Tail black, the 

 two centre pairs of feathers sometimes mottled with chestnut. The 

 third pair are the longest, being f of an inch longer than the central 

 pair and half as long again as the outer (8th) pair. Soft parts as 

 in the male. Total length 22 inches, wing 9-8, tail 7'6, tarsus 3"6. 



A quite yoking female has the plumage like the adult, but the 

 wing-coverts and scapulars have subterminal bars and blotches of 

 black, and the chest-feathers are mostly black. 



Hah. Borneo. 



a. $ ad. sk. 



b-e. cJ 2 ad. st. 



et sk. 

 f,g. d2 ad. sk. 

 h. (S ad. sk. 



i. 2 ad. sk. 



k, I. 9 ad. et iuv. 



sk 

 7n-t. S 2 ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 u-tc. Skeletons. 



Elopura, N. Borneo, April 



( W. B. Fryer). 

 Sarawak, Borneo. 



Sarawak. 

 Sarawak. 



Sarawak (A. H. Everett^. 

 Mt. Dulit, Sarawak, 1000 feet, 



Baram, Sarawak, April to 

 July. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Rajah Brooke [P.]. 

 (Types of the species.) 

 Sir H. Low [C] 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 C. Hose, Esq. [C.]. 



A. II. Everett & C. 

 Hose, E.sqr8. [C.]. 

 Zool. Soc. Coll. 



3. Lophura diardi. 



Euplocomus diardi, Temni. MS., Boncqy. C. Jt. xhii. p. 415 (1856) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 260 (1870). 

 Diardigallus prselatus, Bonap. C. R. xliii. p. 4I5"(1856) ; Gould, B. 



Asia, vii. pi. 21 [male only] (1860). 

 Gallus diardi, Teinm. MS., Schl. Handl. d. Dierk. i. p. 379, Atl. 



Aves, pi. V. fig. 55 (1857). 

 Diardigallus fasciolatus, Blyt.h, J. As. Soc. B. xxvii. p. 280 (1858). 

 Diardigallus crawfuvdi, Schomh. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 250. 

 Euplocamus crawfurdi, Sclat. List of Phas. p. (1863). 

 Euplocamus prrelatus, <Sc/af. Zis)! ()/■ PAns. p. 6, pi. 6 (1863) [Siam, 



Shan States] ; Schomb. Ibis, ] 864, p. 259 [E. Lao Country] ; Sclat. 



^ Wolf, Zool. Skef. 2. pi. 35 (1867) ; Grm/, List Gallints Brit. Mus. 



p. 34 (1867) ; Elliot, Man. Phas. ii. pi. 24 (1872). 



Adult male. Feathered parts of the head, chin and throat black ; 

 crest black, slightly glossed with steel-blue ; neck, mantle, chest, 

 and upper breast very finely vermiculated with grey and black ; 

 wing-coverts, scapulars, and secondaries black, finely vermiculated 

 with white ; the lesser and median wing-coverts and the scapulars 

 with a black subterminal band, narrowly edged with white ; lower 

 back buff, glossed with gold ; rump and shorter upper tail-coverts 

 black, glossed with purplish blue and widely edged with dark 



