38. POLYI'LECTKON. 



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which represent the ocelli on the longer scapulars, outer secondaries, 

 &c. are more or less preen. 



Adult female is easily distinguished from the female of F. cJiliicjuis, 

 having the ground-colour of the back, wings, and rump huff, 

 mottled with black ; no ocelli on the inner webs of the outer tail- 

 feathers ; the longer u])per tail-coverts with paired ocelli like the 

 centre pair of tail-feathers ; the basal ])art of the tail-feathers black 

 mottled with Initf, and the terminal part buff spotted and mottled 

 with ])lack. Total length IS'2 inches, wing 7*1, tail 0-5, tarsus 2\i. 



llaJ). South Tenasserim? Malay I'eninsula ; Sumatra. 

 «-/. cT ? !vd. L't imm. Prov. Wellesley {Dr. Can- India Museum [P.]. 



4. Polyplectron schleiermacheri. 



Poh-plectron schleiermacheri, Iirii</(/. Ah. Vcr. Brcm. v. p. 401 , pi. ix. 

 (1877) [S.E. Borneo]; v. Pelz. Vvrh. z.-b. Wicn, xxx. p. 27 (1881) 

 [ 2 , Teweh, C. Borneo] ; Everett, J. A. S. Sir. Br. p. 198 (,1889). 



Adult male. At once distinguished from P. hical carat am, to which 

 it is most nearly allied, by the following characters: — The crest is 

 curled forwards ; the frill round the hack of the neck is more 

 developed and the violet margin much wider : the ocelli on the back 

 and wings ^are bluish green ; the sides of the neck and chest are 

 black, finely mottled with buff, each feather with a golden-green 

 subterminal, heart-shaped ocellus changing to bluish jjurple ; the 

 middle of the neck and chest white, which colour is irregularly con- 

 tinued down the middle of the breast and belly ; the rest of the 

 underparts are black speckled with buff ; the ocelli on the middle 

 pair of tail-feathers and upper tail-coverts touch but are not con- 

 fluent. Bill horn-brown ; naked skin on face reddish ; legs and feet 

 blue-grey. Total length liO inches, wing 7*8, tailca. 7'8, tarsus 2-Q. 



Adult female. Differs chiefly from the female of P. hicalearatum 

 in having no ocelli on the longer upper tail-coverts, so that the tail 

 shows only a single series, and the underparts washed with black. 

 Total length 14 inches, wing &S, tail 5-(>. tarsus 2'3. 



Hah. ilountaius of Bonieo. Recently obtained at Peitan, 

 X. Borneo {Everett). 



a. cJ ad. sk. Soutli-ea.'it Borneo, Nov. Darmstadt Mus. [E.]. (One 

 (G. Fischer). of the types of the species.) 



