Ii2. GliM.N-.TiUS. 309 



Iiiiiiiittnri' foiKtifs have oblique wavy baft' lines on the outer 

 webs of tlie secoudaries, and the ehest as well as the rest of the 

 uiiderparts are finely vermioulated with blackish. 



Hab. South China, Fokieu, Chekiang. 



a, b. (S iium. sk. & Canton, China. — Beale, Esq. [P.]. 



2 ad. .St. 

 c-f. 2 inini. et China. Purchased. 



pull. .sk. 

 (/. cf ad. St. Richmond, Surrey. Dr. Dowler [P.]. 



//. cj iuim. sk. S. Wales. Viscount Emlyn [P.]. 



«'. Skeleton. 

 k. Sternum. 



8. Gennseus swinhoii. 



Euplocainus swinhoii, Gould, P. Z. S. 180:2, p. 284 [Formosa]; Sclat. 



List of Phas. p. 7 (1863) ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1803, p. 401 TFurmosa]; 



Goii/d, B. Asia, vii. pi. 10 (1864) ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, pp. 353, 538, 



1860, pp. 133, 308, 404, 1867, pp. 232, 409; Sclat. .y Wolf, Zool. 



Sket. 2. pi. 37 (1807); Gray, List Gallimc Brit. Mus. p. 34 



(1867); Touchard, Bull. Soc. Acclim. pp. 417-423 (1870) ; Swinh. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 3!J9 ; Elliot, Mon. Phus. ii. pi. 25 (1872) ; David Sr 



Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 417, pi. 102 (1877). 

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



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

 iieck bhick, the latter sliglitly glossed with steel-blue ; mantle pure 

 white : lower back, rump, and shorter uj)pcr tail- coverts black, glossed 

 with ])urplish blue, and somewhat curled towards the extremity ; 

 scapulars dark crimson, with bronze-red reflections ; wing-coverts 

 and outer secondaries black, margined with a glossy steel-green 

 band, the ends of these feathers are also slightly curled, giving 

 them, as well as the feathers of the lower back &c., the appearance 

 of having, in some lights, a velvet-black subterminal band ; pri- 

 maries brownish, secondaries and their coverts black ; underparts 

 black, richly glossed with purplish blue on the chest, breast, and 

 sides ; centre pair of tail-feathers longest, pure white, rest black ; 

 sometimes the second pair have the inner web white. Bill and 

 spurs pale horny ; facial skin and wattles crimson ; legs and feet 

 scarlet. Total length 29-5 inches, wing!)-5, tail 16, tarsus 3-S, 



An immature male * has the crest short and mixed with black ; 

 the mantle chestnut, mixed with black above, most of the feathers 

 with white shaft-stripes ; the wing-coverts, lower back, and rump 

 dark chestnut and rufous buff thickly mottled with black, most of 

 the feathers of the latter margined with metallic purplish blue ; 

 underparts black without any gloss ; and the middle pair of tail- 

 feathers dark chestnut mottled with black. 



Advlt ft male. The short crest, top of the head, and neck reddish 

 brown mottled Mirli black, and with rufous-buff shaft-stripes ; 

 mantle the same, t)ut the middle of each feather black, and the 

 shaft-stripes ai'o V-shapod ; wing-coverts and scapulars similar, 



* Swinlioe says that "this plumage is carried tlirough ibe winter, but it. 

 varies iu its reseiiiblanco to the one sex or the other." 



