292 PHASIANID.15. 



The tarsus is armed with a short stout spur, and is much longer 

 than the middle toe and claw. 



Range. Borneo. 



1. Lobiophasis bulweri. 



Lobiophasis bulweri, Sharpe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xiv. p. 373 (1874) 

 [Lawas Mts., Sarawak] ; Gould., B. A.sia, vii. pi. 13 (1875) ; Sclat. 

 P. Z. S. 1876 .p. 466, pi. xliv. ; Shaiye, Ibis, 1879, p. 267 ; Treacher, 

 Ibis, 1888 p. 413 [Kinabataugan] ; Everett, List B. Born. p. 198 

 (1889). 



Lobiophasis castaneicaudatus, Sharpe, P. Z. <S'. 1877,p. 94 [Lawas E,.]; 

 Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 12 (1877) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 267. 



Adult male. Neck and chest dark crimson ; back, rump, and lesser 

 and median wing-coverts black, more or less tinged with purple ; 

 all tlie feathers are margined with steel-blue at the extremit}', which 

 is slightly curled. Primary-quills and their coverts dark brown ; 

 secondaries and secondary-coverts brownish black ; breast, sides, and 

 flanks like the back, but the steel-blue margins are narrower ; belly, 

 thighs, and very short under tail-coverts black ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail pure white. Bill horn-colour ; naked skin of face and 

 wattles blue ; legs red. Total length 35 inches, wing 10*3, 

 tail 18, tarsus 3-5. 



Immature males differ from the adults in having the top of the 

 head thicklj- covered with purplish-black feathers mixed with rufous ; 

 the chin and throat thinly covered with black feathers ; the wattles 

 rudimentary ; the dark crimson on the neck and throat much 

 brighter ; and the tail-feathers and the upper tail-coverts dark 

 chestnut and shaped more like those of the female. 



Adult female. Upper parts finely mottled with brownish bufi" and 

 black, inclining to rufous on tlie wing-coverts ; the outer webs of the 

 primaries mostly rufous, indistinctly mottled with black, the inner 

 webs uniform dark brown ; secondaries black, mottled on both webs 

 with rufous. Underparts rufous, finely mottled with black. Upper 

 tail-coverts and tail chestnut, with some small black vermiculations. 

 Total length 20 inches, wing 9-4, tail 6-4, tarsus 3-7. 



A young female differs from the adult in having most of the wing- 

 coverts and scapulars tipped with rust-red and obliquely barred 

 with black on one or both webs; the outer webs of the primaries 

 blackish, only slightly vermiculated with rufous buff towards the 

 margin ; and the upper tail-covorts finely mottled with brownish 

 buff and lilack. 



Hah. Borneo. 



a. (S ad. sk. Moimtains of Lawas R., Sara- GovernorBulwer[P.]. 



wak. (Type of the species.) 



b, c. S fid. St. et Lawas River. Governor Uss]ier[C.]. 

 2 ad. sk. 



^, e. c? 5 iuiui- sk. Lawas River. Governor Ussher[C.]. 



(Types of L. casta?2eicaudatus, Sharpe.) 

 f. c? imm. sk. Lawas River. W. Pretyman, Esq. 



[R]. 

 ff, h. S ad. sk. Sarawak {A. H. Eoerett). Tweeddale Coll. 



i. (5 juv. sk. Mt. Dulit, Sarawak, Jmie. C. Hose, Esq. [C.]. 



