344 PHASIAHID^. 



longest, twice as long as the second pair and nearly four times as 

 long as the outer pair. 



1st primary considerably shorter than the 10th ; and the 2nd 

 falls between the 8th and 10th. The 5th is slightly the longest. 



In the males a high comb extends along the middle of the head 

 from the base of the culm en to behind the posterior margin of the 

 eyes and is serrated or entire : sides of the face, chin, and throat 

 naked ; either a pair of wattles on each side of the head, one below 

 the ear and the other on the side of the throat, or a single wattle 

 down the middle of the throat. 



Tarsiis considerably longer than the middle toe and claw ; and 

 armed with a long, sharp, curved spur. 



Range. Indo-Malayan region, Cochin China, Hainan, Philippine 

 Is., Palawan, Sumatra, Java, Timor, Lombock, and Celebes. 



Keii to the Species. 



I. Comb and spurs largely developed ; middle pair of 



tail-feathers elongate. {Males.) 



A. Comb emarginate ; a wattle on each side of 



the throat. Tail of 14 feathers. 



a. Hackles covering the mantle orange-red or 



yellowish oraniie ; breast black (jallm, p. 344. 



b. Hackles covering the mantle yellow with 



dark shaft-stripes; breast reddish orange. . lafayetti, p. 348. 



c. Hackles covering the mantle barred alter- 



nately with black and white and each with 

 a yellow wax-like terminal spot ; breast- 

 feathers black edged -^-ith gi-eyish white 

 and with a white shaft-stripe sonnerati, p. 350. 



B. Margin of comb entire ; a single wattle down 



the middle of the throat. Tail of 16 feathers, r'arius, p. 352. 



II. Comb rudimentary ; spurs not developed ; middle 



tail-feathers not elongate. {Females.) 



C. Lower back sandy brown finely mottled with 



black. 



d. Breast-feathers pale reddi^ih brown (jalhix, p. 344. 



e. Breast-feathers white, fringed and nifu'ked 



with black. 

 a'. Outer webs of secondaries ■nddely barred 



with black and buff lafmjetti, p. 348. 



h'. Outer webs of secondaries sandy brown 



iinely mottled with black sonnerati, p. 350. 



D. Lower back black, irregularly barred and 



fringed with buH'; breast dull buff; outer 



woba of secondaries black barred ■with buif. . varitts, p. 352. 



1. G-aUus gallus. 



Phasianus gallus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766); Haffi. Trans. Linn. 



Soc. xiu. p. 319 (1822) [Sumatra]. 

 Grande Caille de la Chine, Sonn. Voy. Ind. Orient, ii. p. 171 (1782). 

 Hackled Partridge, Z«^A. Gen. Syti.'ii. p. 766, pi. 66 (1783); id. Gen. 



Hist. viii. p. 307, pi. 129 (1823). 

 Tetrao ferrugineus, Gm. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 761 (1788). 

 PerdLx ferruginea, Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 651 (1790). 



