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black ; longer coverts without ocelli ; the three middle pairs of tail- 

 feathers with a pair of dark green ocelli edged with black on each 

 web, on the outer pairs the ocellus on the inner web is obsolete and 

 represented by a black spot ; lores, thin covering of feathers on 

 sides of face, chin, and throat white ; rest of underparts reddish 

 brown faintly mottled with black, the feathers of the chest and 

 breast with jiale shafts. Orbital skin black. Total length 14 4 

 inches, wing 0*8, tail o'o, tarsus 2-2. 

 Hah. Island of Palawan. 



u-c. (S 2 ad. et Puerto Priucesa, Palawan, Jan. Tweeddale Coll. 



cJ imm. sk. {A. IT. Everett). 



6. Polyplectron napoleonis. 



Polvplectrum napoleonis, Less. Traite (tOrn. pp. 487, 6o0 (1831); 



id. C„mp. de Buf. vii. p. 323 (183(i) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 495 



(l84o) ; id. List Galliiue Brit. Mus. p. 25 (1867). 

 Polyplectron eniphanuni, Teinm. IH. Cut. v. pi. 18 [no. 540] (1831); 



Jard. Nat. Lib., Oni. iv. p. 159, pi. 5 (1834); Gray, Hand-l. B. 



p. 257 (1870); Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. pi. 9 (1872); Salvad. Ucc. 



Born. p. 304 (1874); Oust. Bull. !Soc. Phihm. (7) vi. p. 259 



(1882) [Luzon]. 

 Eniphauia napoleonis, Bonap. C. li. xlii. p. 878 (1856). 

 Polypleetrou emphaues, Sclat. List of Phas. p. 12 (1863). 



Adult male. Exactly similar to the male of F. nehrhorntr, but the 

 white su])erciliary stripes are wide and strongly marked and confluent 

 on the nape. Total length 18-5 inches, wing ""3, tail 7'S, tarsus 2-5. 



Hal). Unknown : ? Luzon, Philippine Is. 



«. c? ad. sk. [Molucca Islands.] Purcha.-:ed of M. Vevreaux. 



39. CHALCURUS. 



Type. 

 Chalcurus, Bonap. Ann. Sci. Nat. (4) i. p. 146 (1854). . C. chalcurus. 



Tail composed of 16 feathers, elongate, wedge-shaped as in 

 Pliimaniis ; the middle pair nearly three times as long as the outer 

 pair ; all partially glossed with metallic purple, but no ocelli. 



1st ])rimary much shorter than the 2nd, which is shorter than the 

 lOth ; (ith a "tritle the longest. 



Sides of the face covered with small feathers. 



Tarsus longer than middle toe and claw. 



The basal half of the shafts of the contour-feathers much swollen. 



Riuuje. Sumatra. 



1. Chalcnrns chalcnras. 



Polvplectrum chalcurum. Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 487 (1831). 

 Polyplectron chalcurum, Tnnm. PI. Col. v. pi. 19 [no. 5l!>] (1831) 



[Sumatra]; Jard. Xaf. Lib., Orn. iv. p. 103, pi. vii. (]8.34); 



Less. Vomp. de Buff. vii. p. 322 (1836); Gray, List of B. 



