40. AKGUSIANCS. 363 



Key to the Species. 



A. ^Fi(l<ll(' tail- feathers euoriuously elongate. 



(Malrs.) 



a. I'riiiiaries with a rufous-brown band finely 



dotted witli white on tlie inner web. 



«'. Mantle black, mottled with buft'and rufous; 



lower back and rumj) but¥ with black 



spots anjus, p. 363. 



b'. Mantle black, mottled with white and 

 rufous ; lower back and rump rufous-buff 



with black s])ots yo-Dh }'• «^'^5- 



h. rriniaries with a rufous-brown band finely 

 dotted with white on the inner as well as 



the outer web bipunctalus, p. 36(5. 



15. Middle tail-feathers not enormously elongate. 

 (Fciitidvii.) 



c. Feathers surroundinij: the neck chestnut. Un- 



devjiarts rufous, verniiculated with black . . arr/iis, p. 363. 



d. Featliers surroLinding the neck rust-red. Un- 



derpaits sandy bro^\^l, finely vermiculated 



witii black grayi, p- 365. 



1. Argitsianus argus. 



I'hasiaiuis argus, Linn. S. X. i. p. '272 (1760) ; Gm. S. N. i. ]it. ii. 

 p. 742 (17S8); Lath. Intl. Orn. ii. j). 6i'9 (1790); Bonmit. Tabl. 

 Ennid. Mith. i. p. lS-<, pi. 87. fig. 3 (1791); Shaw, J/^^s. Lever. 

 p. 4'], pi. (1792) ; liajjl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 320 (1822) [Su- 

 matra] ; Grai/ in Griff', ed. Cur. iii. p. 24 (1829). 



l/Argus ou Le'Luen, Huff. Hi.'<t. Xcd. Ois. ii. p. 301 (1771). 



Argus Pheasant, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 710 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. viii. 

 p. 20o (1823). 



Argus giffanteus, Temm. Fig. ct Gall. ii. p. 410 (1813), iii. p. 678 

 (isl.j)'; Steph. in .shaivs Gen. Zool. xi. p. 243, pi. 14 (1819); 

 Sehinz, Nut. Abbild. Jw/. p. 2o3, pi. 97 (1833); Jard. Nat. Lib., 

 Or?}, iv. p. 16r,, pi. \iii.'(1834) ; Jard. ^- Sell). III. Orn. n. s. pis. 14 

 & 15 ( 1837) ; Gray, List of B. pt. iii. GcdI. p. 23 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. 

 iii. p. -J96 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 242 (1849) ; Sc/iinz, 

 Nat. T7)>/. p. 152, ])1. 74 (lb53); Cass. i'.S. L.rpl. E.rped. p. 292 

 (1858) [Singapore]; Sclat. List of I'/ias. p. 12 (1863) [part.]; 

 Fdz. All. Nat., V,»i. fi-. 226 {\HiA) ; Wallace, Malay Arch. i. p. 32 

 (18(;9) ; Llliot, Mon. Phas. i. jd. 1 1 (1872) ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 481 

 (1874) [Tenas-serini], iii. p. S24 (1875) ; Hume Sf Marsh. Game B. 

 Ind. i. p. 90, pi. (1878) ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 427 (1878^ 

 [S. Tenasserini] ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 68 (1879) [Malacca]; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 115, pis. vii. & viii. fig. 1. 



Argus pavonius, J'ieill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. ii. p. 507 (1810); id. 

 Gal. des Ois. ii. p. 19, pi. 204 (1825) ; Less. Traits d'Orn. p. 488, 

 pi. 84 (1S31). 



Malav Peacock, /,(///(. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 121. pi. 120 (1823). 



Argus pavoninus, ,/. F. Gray, III. Lid. Zool. i. pi. 36 (18;^0-32). 



Argusianus giganteus, Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mu-o. p. 25 (1867) ; 

 id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 257" (1870); Blyth S,- Walden, Cat. Mamm. 

 (.V B. Burma, p. 148 (1875). 



Argu.-iauus argus, Twedd. Ilns, 1877, p. 322 [Lanipong, Sumatra]; 

 Suhad.AuH.Mus. Civ.Gmov. xiv. p. 294 (1679); Oates.B.Bunnah, 



