352 PHiSlANIDiE. 



4. Gallus varius. 



Phasianus varius, iSfiaiv ^- Nodd. Nat. Misc. x. pi. 3o3 [text]. 

 Gallus varius, Griff, ei. Cuv. iii. p. 21 (1829) ; Less. Traite d!Orn. 



p. 492 (1831) ; Gray, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 27 (1844) ; id. 



Gen. B. iii. p. 499 (184.5) ; Sclat. List of Phns. p. 10 (1863) ; 



Bh/th, Ibis, 1867, pp. 307, 308 ; Gray, List GalUnce Brit. Mus. p. 40 



(1867); id. Hnnd-l. B. ii. p. 261 (1870); Elliot, Mon. P/ias. 



ii. pi. 3o (1872) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 3 [Singapore ?] ; Hmne, 



Str. F. X. p. 68 (1887) [Joliore, Malay Pen.]. 

 Gallus furcatus, Temm. Pic/, et Gall. ii. p. 261 (1813), iii. p. 662 



(1815); Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. si. p. 215 (1819); Vieill. 



Tahl. Eacijcl. Meth. i. p. 364 (1823) : Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 4 



[no. 483] (1829) ; Graij, III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 43. fig. 2 (1830-32) ; 



8chinz, Nat. Abbild. Vog. p. 242 (1833) ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. 



p. 184, pi. X. (1834) ; Schinz, Nat. Vog. p. 145 (1853) ; Wallace. 



P. Z. S. 18()3, p. 486 [Lombock, Floresj. 

 Gallus javauic us, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 185 (1822) [Java]. 



Adult male. Top of the head, back and sides of the neck, and 

 upper part of the mantle covered with short truncate feathers, 

 somewhat curved at the extremity, black at the base, shading iuto 

 purplish blue edged with golden green near the extremity, and 

 margined with purplish or greenish bronze and fringed with black ; 

 lower part of the mantle golden green shot with blue, shading into 

 violet-bronze towards the extremity and margined with black; 

 hackles of the lower back and rump long and black, narrowly 

 margined all round with golden yellow ; shorter upper tail-coverts 

 the same, but some have the centre part glossed with bluish green ; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts elongate and reddish orange, with 

 a wide black stripe down the middle ; quills and greater coverts 

 black, slighth' glossed with bluish green ; chest and rest of uuder- 

 parts black, somewhat mixed with buff towards the vent ; longer 

 upper tail-coverts and tail black, glossed with bluish green. Upper 

 margin of the j;omb entire, a single wattle down the middle of the 

 throat ; sides of the head and lores naked, with only a few tiny 

 isolated plumes. All the naked parts are scarlet ; the comb and 

 wattle green, yellow, and scarlet ; bill horn-colour ; feet and legs 

 flesh-colour. Total length 28 inches, wing 9, tail 11"2, tarsus 2-9. 



In an immature male the secondaries and second ar3T-coverts are 

 margined and mottled with buff, and the comb, wattle, and spurs 

 are rudimentarj-. 



Adult female. Top of the head, neck, and upper part of the 

 mantle sandj' brown, the feathers of the latter with submarginal 

 blackish bands and dusky centre stripes ; rest of the upper parts, 

 secondaries, and secondary- coverts black, slightly glossed with 

 green and irregularly barred and margined ac the extremity with 

 buff; primary-quills and coverts dark brown; lores, superciliary 

 stripes, and sides of the face pale buff; chin and throat white; 

 underparts buff, the chest-feathers with brownish margins and the 

 sides and flaidis with blackish mottlings ; tail black, irregularly 

 edged with buff. Total length 15-3 inches, wing 7*7, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 2'3. 



