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PHASIANID^. 



Adult male*. Top of the head and mantle dark orange or orange- 

 red, shading into orange or j'ellowish orange towards the extremities 

 of the longer hacklesf; feathers on the lower part of the mantle 

 hidden hy the hackles and lesser coverts round the bend of the wing 

 black more or less glossed with green or purplish blue ; scapulars, 

 median wing-coverts, and lower back dark maroon-red, shading into 

 orange or orange-red on the long hackles which represent the rump- 

 feathers and shorter upper tail-coverts : secondary-coverts black 

 glossed with purplish green ; quills black, the outer margins of the 

 primaries ciunamon and the outer half of the outer webs of the 

 secondaries chestnut or deep rufous brown ; fore part of the neck, 

 chest, and rest of underparts black, slightly glossed with green ; 

 longer upper tail-coverts and tail glossed with green or ])urplish green. 

 Bill dark brown ; emarginate comb and wattles crimson or red ; ear- 

 lappets generally white or pinkish white in Indian birds, red in 

 Burmese and Malayan specimens : naked skin on the sides of the 

 head, chin, throat, and fore part of neck paler red ; legs and feet 

 slatj'. Total length 29 inches, wing 9-5, tail 14, tarsus 3-1. 



Immature males have the hackles of the mantle much paler than 

 in the majority of adult birds and mostly with dark shaft-stripes ; 

 the chestnut part of the outer webs of the secondaries finely 

 mottled with black nearly to the margins ; the feathers underlying 

 the hackles of the mantle dull brownish black without any green 

 gloss, and the comb and wattles rudimentary. 



Adult female. Top of the head rust-red, shading into orange on the 

 neck and pale yellow on the upper mantle, each feather with a wide 

 black stripe down the centre ; rest of the upper parts pale reddish 

 brown, finely mottled with black and with pale shafts ; quills 

 blackish brown, the outer half of the outer webs of the secondaries 

 mottled with pale reddish brown ; fore part of neck chestnut ; chest 

 and breast pale light red, shading into pale reddish brown on the 

 sides, flanks, and belly, each feather with a pale shaft : under tail- 

 covcrts brownish black; tail-feathers like the secondaries, the 

 centre pair of feathers mottled on the margins of both webs and 

 the outer pairs on the outer web with pale rufous. Soft parts much 

 the same as those of the male ; the comb in very much smaller, and 

 the wattles are absent. Total length 16-5 inches, wing 7*5, tail 

 5-5, tarsus 2-4. 



Hub. The jungles of North-eastern and parts of Central India, 

 ranging south through the Malay Peninsula, east through Siam to 

 Cochin China and Hainan ; it also occurs in a wild state in Sumatra, 

 Java, Lombock, Timor, Celebes, Palawan, and the Philippines. 



* In June the hackles and long tail-feathers are moulted both in this and the 

 following species, aud the former are replaced by short black feathers. A second 

 moult takes place in September, and the short feathers of the neck are again 

 replaced by hackles and the long tail-feathers reappear. 



t There is considerable variation iu the colours of the hackles covering the 

 mantle and rump and other parts of the plumage in different specimens, but 

 these differences appear to be merely individual and are not dependent on 

 locality. 



