308 phasianid.t:. 



Gennseus nyctLemerus, War/l Isis, 1832, p. 1228. 



Euplocomus nycthenierus, J. E. Gray, III. Inch Zool. ii. pi. 38. fig. 2 



(1834) ; G. R. Gr<>y,ListofB. pt.iii. Gall. p. 25 (1844) ; Blyth, Cat. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. £44 (1849) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 260 (1870). 

 Nycthemerus argentatus, Sivains. Class. B. ii. p. 341 (1837). 

 Gallophasis crawfurdii, Gray, Geii. B. iii. p. 498 (1845). 

 Gallophasis nycthemerus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 498 (1845). 

 Eiiplocamus nyctlieinerus, Gould, B. As. vii. pi. 17 (1859); Sclat. 



List ofPhus. p. 8 (1863) [Southern China]; Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 307 ; Gray, List Gallinee Brit. Mns. p. 33 (1867) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 399; Elliot, Mon. I'has. ii. pi. 21 (1872) ; David 4- Oustal. 



Ois. Chine, p. 416 (1877) [S. China, Fokieu, Chi-kiang]. 



Adult male. Top of the head and crest black glossed with purple ; 

 sides of the head, back, and sides of the neck and rest of the upper 

 parts white, the feathers of the mantle, lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts each with five or six narrow regular black concentric 

 lines; scapulars, wing-coverts, and quills the same, but the black 

 lines are fewer, coarser, and less regular; chin, throat, fore part of 

 neck, and rest of underparts black, glossed with purple, some of 

 the feathers on the sides of the breast with white shaft-stripes, 

 others with the whole of the outer web Avhite. Tail unusually long ; 

 centre pair of tail-feathers pure white, rest white, with irregular 

 oblique black lines gradually increasing in number and thickness 

 towards the outer pair. Bill greenish horn ; facial skin blood-red ; 

 legs and feet scarlet. Total length 40 inches, wing 10"5, tail 24, 

 tarsus 3- 6. 



Young male has the upper parts like those of the female, but 

 most of the feathers of the wing-coverts have narrow bars of buff 

 edged with black running parallel to the margin ; the outer webs of 

 the secondaries ol)liquely vermicuiatcd with black and buff lines ; 

 most of the feathers of the chin, throat, and chest black, glossed 

 with purple, but the majority of the feathers on the rest of the 

 underparts marked with alternate black and white or black and buff 

 lines running parallel to the edge ; tail as in the female. 



Adult female. Crest blackish brown ; top of the head, rest of 

 upper parts, and middle jjair of tail-feathers olive-brown, more or 

 less vermicuiatcd with fine dusky lines ; inner webs of the quills 

 brown ; chin and throat dirty brownish white ; neck and rest of 

 underparts similar to the upper, but the feathers of the belly, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts are mottled and vermicuiatcd, especially the 

 latter, with black ; the second pair of tail-feathers are brownish 

 huff, obliquely vermicuiatcd with brownish black ; the outer pairs 

 are black, obliquely vermiculated with white. Colours of soft parts 

 like those of the male, but not so bright. Total length 20"5 inches, 

 wing 9-1, tail 9'8, tarsus 3-2. 



as the female of his Liardigalhis ■pralatus. The figure given there agrees 

 ■well with the female of G. andcrsoni, but whether it is an accurate reproduction 

 of Crawfurd's original drawing is impossible to tell ; if so, where are the white 

 ■wing-coverts mentioned by Gray ? 



What PliaMii.nus rrninfurdi really was is shrouded iu uncertainty, and tlie 

 name should be dropped. 



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