38. POLYTLKCTKOX. 353 



Hub. Java, Lombock, aud Flores (said to have been obtained 

 wild near Singapore). 



a,b.S<i a<i- St. Java. India Museum [P.]. 



V, d. (S ad. sk. Java. (xould Coll. 



e. S imin. sk. Java. India Museum ^P.]. 



f,g- 6 2 ad. sk. East Java. Wallace Coll. 



h. cJ ad. sk. [Sinfrapore] (Cantor). India Museum [P.]. 



I. 2 ad. sk. [China]. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



k. c? ad. sk. No locality. 



;58. POLYPLECTRON *. ,j, 



Polvplectron, Temm. Pi;/, ef dull. ii. p. o63 (1813) . . P. chinquis. 



Dip'lectron, Vieill. Anah/se, p. 50 (181ti) P. chinquis. 



Polyplectrum, Less. Traite (VOrn. p. 487 (1831) P. chinquis. 



Diplectrum, A(;asx. Index Unirersulis, p. 12-5 (1846). . P. chinquis. 



Diplecti-cipus, Glnijer, Hand- u. Ili/f.^h. p. 382 P. chinquis._ 



Emphania, Reichenh. Nut. Syst. Voij. p. xxix (1852) . P. napoleonis. 



Tail composed of 20 to 24 feathers, large, full, aud rounded, the 

 middle pair twice as long as the outer pair and each ornamented 

 with one or a pair of metallic ocelli. 



1st primary much shorter than the 2nd ; 2nd shorter than the 

 10th : fjth slightly the longest. 



Sides of the face naked or very nearly so. 



Tarsus longer than middle toe and claw, and armed in the male 

 with generally two and sometimes three sjiurs on each leg. 



Range. Indo-Chinese countries, from Sikhim to Cochin China, 

 throughout the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Palawan, and 

 ? Philippines. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Mautlo aud wing-coverts ornamented with 



brilliant round metallic ocelli or wdth the 



terminal portion of each feather metaUie. 



{Males.) 



A. Breast and belly brown, thickly spotted 



and mottled with dirty white or buft'. 



a. Outer tail-feathers witli well-developed 



metidlic ocelli on the inner as well as 



the outer webs. 



«'. t)celli green or bluish green, with 



blue aud violet reflections. Facial 



skin pale fleshy yellow, throat 



white chinquis, p. -3.54. 



//. Ocelli golden green, with bluish- 

 violet reflections. Facial skin 

 crimson ; no white throat germaini, p. 357. 



b. Outer tail-feathers with no ocelli on the 



inner web bivalcaratum, p. 357. 



* Doubtful species : — Perdix concentrica, J. E. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 53. 

 fig. 1 (1830-32). 



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