3-58 PHASIANIDJE. 



Pavo bicalcaratus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 268 (1760) ; Gm. S. N. i. pt. ii. 



p. 730 (1788) ; Haffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 319 (1822) (Sumatra) : 



Grif. ed. Quo. iii. p. 13, pi. (1829). 

 Le petit Paonde Malacca, Somi. Voy. hid. Orient, ii. p. 173, pi. xcix. 



(1782). 

 Phasianus malacceusis, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Lnsubr. pt. ii. p. 93 



(1786). 

 Polvplectron chinquis, Temm. {nee Midi.) Piy. et Gall. ii. p. 363 



(1813) ; iii. p. 675 (1815) [part]. 

 Iris Peacock, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 118 (1823) [part]. 

 Diplectron bicalcaratum, Vieill. Gal. des Ois. ii. p. 17 [part] (1825). 

 Polyplectrou bicalcaratum, Viff. m ^ Raffl. Mem. p. 676 (18.30) 



[Sumatra]; Temiii. PI. Col. v. Eperonnier, pp. 2, 6 (1831); 



Less. Comp. de Bivff. -vii. p. 321 (1836) ; Gray, List of B. 



pt. iii. Gall. p. 22 (1844); id. Gen. B. iii. p. 495 (1845): Blyth, 



Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 242 (1849); Sclat. List of Phas. p.' 12, 



pi. 12 (1863) ; Fitz. Atl. Nat.,Vdg. fig. 225 (1864) ; Gray, List 



(rallince Brit. Mus. p. 23 (1867) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 256 (1870) ; 



Gould, B. Asia,\n. pi. 51 (1870) ; Elliot, Man. Phas. i. pi. 7 (1872) ; 



Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 481 (1874) [Tenasserim] ; Hume ^ Davison, 



Str. F. vi. p. 434 (1878) [? Hills of S. Tenasserim] ; Hume i,- Marsh. 



Game B. Lid. i. p. 114, pi. (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 68 (1879) 



[Malay Pen.]; Kelhum, Ibis, 1881, p. 531 [Perak] ; Midi. J.f. O. 



1882, p. 432 [Salauga Is.]. 

 Polyplectron hardwickii, J. E. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 37 (1830- 



32), ii. pi. 42. fig. 1 (18.^4); G. R. Gray, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. 



p. 22(1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 495 (1845) ; id. List Gallince Brit. 



Mus. p. 24 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 257 (1870). 

 Polyplectrou lineatum, J. E. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. 1. pi. 38 (1830-32) ; 



G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 495 (1845). 

 Polyplectrum bicalcaratum. Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 487 (1831) ; Jard. 



Nat. Libr., Orn. iv. p. 156 (1834). 



Adult male. Easily distinguished from the male of P. cJiinquis 

 by the following differences : — The longer crest- feathers are straight 

 and glossed with purplish green, the dark bars on the feathers of 

 the back of the neck are glossed with violet; the ground-colour of 

 the rest of the upper parts is buff, thickly dotted and mottled -with 

 black ; the ocelli on the wings and tail are entirely rich green in 

 one light and purplish or blue in another* ; only the middle pair of 

 tail-feathers have ocelli on each side of the shaft ; on all the outer 

 pairs there is only one on the outer web ; on the middle pair of 

 tail-feathers and longer upper tail-coverts the ocelli are confluent in 

 the middle line and not divided from one another by a pale band ; 

 the basal part of the tail-feathers and tail-coverts behind the ocelli 

 is black reticulated with buft ; the anterior part is rufous buff thickly 

 spotted with black ; the ear-coverts are blackish slightly glossed 

 with green ; rest of the itnderparts vermiculated with black and 

 buft". Upiier mandible blackish brown, under mandible horn-colour ; 

 naked skin on side of head red ; legs and feet black. Total length 

 22 inches, wing S'2, tail 10, tarsus 2-8. 



The immature male resembles the female, but the black patches 



* In one specimen from Malacca all the ocelli are dark greenish blue with 

 deep violet rellections. 



