40. ARGUSIANPS. 



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glyphics, the outer webs of the latter next the sh.ifts mixed with 

 rufous ; chest aiifl rest of undcrparts rufous, finely mottled with 

 black ; under tail-coverts black, finely verraiculated with pale rufous ; 

 tail-feathers black, thickly mottled with irregular rufous lines and 

 marks. Legs and feet duller red than in the male. Total length 

 [M inches ; wing to the end of the primaries 13, to end of the 

 secondaries 15; tail 12-5, tarsus 4. 



Jfal). Laos Mountains, Siam, South Tenasserim, the Malay Penin- 

 sula, and Sumatra. 



M. Mouhot [C.]. 



E. W. Dates, Esq. [C.]. 



Hume Coll. 



India Museum [P.], 



India Museum [P.]. 



India Museum [P.]. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 

 will [P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



^\\ Harvey, Esq. [P.], 



Purchased. 



Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Dr. YOU Faber [C.]. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



2. Argusianus grayi. 



Argus giganteus, Mull, {nee Tejnm.) Ter/iandl. Land- en Volkenk. 



p. 4:50 (18;39-44); Silatcr, P. Z. S. 18(53, pp. 124 [part] & 222 ; 



id. Lht ofPhciii.^. 12 (1863) [part., Borneo]. 

 Argus gravi, Elliot, Ibis, 1865, p. 423 [Borneo]; id. Mon. Pha,^. i. 



p. xviii,"pl. 12 [text] (1872) [Borneo]; Sftarpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 23 



[Bintulu'^; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 267 [Lawas R.]; EUiut, Auk, viii. 



p. 14(1891) [X.E. J5orneo]. 

 .\rgusianus gravi, Oray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 26 (1867) ; id. 



Iland-l. B. \\. p. 257 (1870) ; W'alden, Ibis, 1872, p. 381 ; Salrad. 



Ucc. Bum. p. 305 (1874) ; Gnillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 416 [Silam, 



Sandakau]; Evirett, List B. Born. p. 197 (1889). 



AdvH male. Differs chiefly from the adult male of A. argus 

 in having the mantle, wing-coverts, and scapulars black, mottled 

 with white and rufous, the lower back and rumj) rufous buff; the 

 neck and upper chest brighter rufous, with yellowish shaft-stripes ; 

 the sides and flanks more or less mottled with white. Total length 

 60 inches ; wing to end of primaries 17, and to end of secondaries 

 33 ; tail 42. tarsus 4. 



