30. LOUIUl'HASlS. 291 



crimson with bronzc-rcrl reflections ; priraarieg brownish black, 

 faintly mottled with white; rest of the undcrparts, longer upijor 

 tail-coverts, and t ail black, slightly glossed with steel-blue or purple ; 

 tlio first three pairs of tail-fcathors are unusually long and pointed, 

 the tliird pair being considerably longer than first. Facial skin and 

 wattles red. Bill and spurs white ; legs and feet scarlet. Total 

 length 24 inches, wing 9-8, tail 13, tarsus 3-4. 



A i/nif-e jiowKj male differs from the adult in having no crest ; the 

 nock and back mixed with rufous-chestnut feathers vermiculated 

 with l)lack like those of the adult female ; the wing-coverts and 

 secondaries interspersed with blackish-brown feathers, irregularly 

 barred and mottled with buff, and the tail-feathers chestnut, 

 marked and barred with black. 



Adult female. Top of the head and neck brown, shading into 

 whitish on the chin and throat ; mantle, chest, breast, and sides of 

 the belly reddish chestnut, the feathers of the two latter margined 

 all round witli white ; lower back black, closely mottled with rufous 

 buff; rump and upper tail-coverts mottled with buff; wing-coverts, 

 sca])ulars, and secondaries black with wide-set buff bands, mottled 

 with black ; primaries brownish black, mottled with buff ; rest of 

 the underparts brownish black, edged with white ; under tail-coverts 

 chestnut. Two middle iiairs of tail-feathers like the outer second- 

 aries, five outer pairs dark chestnut, third pair intermediate. Total 

 length 21 inches, wing S-S, tail 8-3, tarsus 2-1). 



Hah. Shan States, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin China. 



a,b. d" 2 ad. sk. Siam. Sir R. Schomburgk [P.]. 



c-e. c? 2 ad. st. et sk. Siam. Zoological Society's Coll, 



f-i. (S juv. et $ ad. sk. Cambodia, July. M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



ITi/hrid between Lophura diardi ajid Gennaaus lineatus. 

 a. 2 ad. St. England. Zool. Sec. Coll. 



30. LOBIOPHASIS. 



Type. 

 Lobiophasis, Sharpe, Ann. Ma<j. N. 11. (4) xiv. p. 373(1874). L. bulweri. 



Tail composed of 32 feathers in the male (28 in the female), 

 compressed elongate, pointed, the middle pairs of feathers much 

 curved and more than twice as long as the outer pairs, which have 

 little or no outer web. All the feathers have the shaft produced 

 beyond tho web and in the outer pairs it terminates in a sharp 

 point. 



1st i)rimary is much shorter than the 2nd, which is about equal 

 to the 10th ; the ."Jth is if anything slightly the longest. 



The male has the head almost entirely naked, only a few feathers 

 down tho middle of tho crown. Three pairs of elongate wattles — a 

 largo pair, one on each side of the occiput, a very large one on each 

 side of tho throat, and a small pair on the lores on each side of the 

 base of the culmen. In the female only the sides of the head are 

 naked ; there is a rudimentary pair of wattles, one on each side of 

 the throat. 



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