364 PHASIANID,E. 



ii. p. 313 (1883) [Siam?]; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 52 (1883); 

 Harterf, J. f. O. 1887, p. 378 ; id. Cat. Mus. ISeiickeiib. p. 198 

 (1891) [Siam]. 

 Argusa gig-anteus, Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 530 [Perak, Malacca]. 



Adult male. The top of the head and short occipital crest black ; 

 back of the neck thinly covered with hairy feathers finely barred 

 with black and white ; mantle, wing-coverts, and scapulars black, 

 chequered and mottled with buff; lower back and shorter rump- 

 feathers clear buff, with rounded black spots ; longer rump-feathers 

 paler buff, and elongate middle pair of tail-coverts whitish, thickly 

 marked with kidney-shaped black spots and blotches ; rest of upper 

 and under tail-coverts black, with narrow wavy bars of white. Pri- 

 maries greyish brown, shading into yellowish towards the margins 

 of the outer webs and ornamented with closely approximated rows 

 of black and rufous spots ; on the basal part of the inner web, and 

 separated from the shaft by a yellowish line regularly barred with 

 black, is a band of rufous minutely dotted with white ; shafts dull 

 blue, edged with yellow near the extremity. Secondaries pale 

 brownish white, the outer web with oblique bands and rows of 

 black spots ; next the shaft a series of large ocelli, gradually 

 increasing in size towards the extremity ; each of these ocelli is 

 yellowish in the centre, shading into white on the one side and 

 reddish brown on the other and surrounded by a black band ; the 

 inner web white towards the margin, ornamented with several rows 

 of round black spots ; the terminal part of each feather black, reti- 

 culated with pale rufous and spotted and marked with white. Eore 

 part of neck chestnut barred with black ; rest of underparts black, 

 with wavy bars and markings of chestnut and buff. The long 

 middle pair of tail-feathers tipped with dirty white ; the outer web 

 reddish brown shading into black towards the shaft, and the inner 

 web grey : the Avhole thickly dotted with small white ocelli sur- 

 rounded by black rings ; the outer feathers similarly marked, but 

 nearly unitbrm black, mottled with rufous towards the extremity. 

 Bill and claws bluish white ; facial skin dark blue ; legs and feet 

 bright red. Total length 72 inches ; wing to the end of the pri- 

 maries 19, to the end of the secondaries J:54 ; tail 50, tarsus 4*4. 



The immature male difi'ers from the adult in having the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts like those of the female, only 

 more coarsely marked : the primaries rufous, mottled and spotted 

 with small irregular black marks ; the secondaries like those of the 

 female, but the ocelli of the adult are present in a rudimentary form ; 

 the breast finely vermiculatcd with reddish brown and black ; and 

 the outer tail-feathers mottled with rufous to the base. 



Adulf female. Feathers on the top of the head buff edged with black; 

 nape as in the male ; neck chestnut, slightly mottled with black and 

 shading into reddish buff on the mantle, which is thickly mottled 

 with black: lower back, rump, and u]iper tail-coverts bright buff, 

 irregularly barred and vermiculatcd with black : primaries chestnut, 

 mottled and spotted with irregular black marks ; wing-coverts, 

 scapulars, and secondaries black, thickly covered with buff hiero- 



