362 PHASIA>'ID^. 



pt. iii. Gall p. 22 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 495 (1845) ; Sdat. 



List of Phas. p. 12 (1863) ; Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 25 



(1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 257 (1870) ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. pi. 10 



(1872) ; Nichols. Ibis, 1883, p. 255 [Sumatra] ; Biittikof. N. Leyd. 



Mus. ix. p. 77 (1887) [Padang, W. Sumatra]. 

 Pol^'plectrum inocellatus, Cuv. Paris Mus. ; Less. Traite d'Orn. 



p. 487 (1831). 

 Chalcurus inocellatus, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 878 (1856) ; Salvad. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 248 [Mt. Singalau, W. Sumatra]. 



Adult male. General colour brown, all the feathers of the back, 

 wiug-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts barred and fringed with 

 dull rufous ; the bai's on the longer upper tail-coverts are less 

 regular and defined, but more directly transverse than those of the 

 back, which more or less follow the curve of the margin of the 

 feathers ; quills dark brown, the secondaries slightly mottled on the 

 outer web with pale rufous ; sides of the face somewhat thickly 

 covered with whitish-brown feathers ; chin, throat, and neck- 

 feathers with brown margins and whitish centres ; uuderparts 

 brown, the under tail-coverts with irregular pale rufous bars ; the 

 three middle pairs of tail-feathers black, irregularly barred with 

 rufous, shading into purplish blue towards the extremity, and 

 tipped with black spotted with pale rufous ; the rest of the outer 

 pairs similarly marked, but the greater part of their outer webs are 

 ])iirplish blue changing into violet. Total length IS inches, wing 

 6-6, tail 9-2, tarsus 2-4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller and without spurs. 

 Total length 15'7 inches, wing 6-2, tail 7'4, tarsus 2*2. 



Hah. Same as that of the genus. 



«, b. cS 2 ^d. sk. Sumatra. Leyden Museum Coll. 



c. $ ad. sk. Lolo, Sumatra (C. Bock). Tweeddale Coll. 



40. ARaUSIANUS. 



Type. 



Argu.s, Tcmm. {nee Boh., Moll. 1761 ; nee Scoj)., Lep. 



\Tri) Piy. et Gall. ii. p. 410 (1813) A. argus. 



Argusianus, Rqfinesqiie, Analyse, p. 219 (1815) A. argus. 



Argusanus, Bonap. V. Ii. xlii. p. 878 (1856) A. argus. 



Argusa, Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 530 A. argus. 



Argusinius, Oustal. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) vi. p. 254 



(1882) A. argus. 



Tail composed of 12 feathers ; the middle pair enormously elon- 

 gate and more than four times as long as the outer pair. 



1st primary shortest; 10th longest; secondaries enormously 

 developed, much longer than the primaries ; the Sth and Dth nearly 

 twice as long as the 1st. 



Sides of the face, chin, throat, and fore part of the neck naked. 



Tarsus much longer than the middle toe and claw. 



Range. Laos Mts., Siam, South Tcnasserim, ilalay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, and Borneo. 



