240 ALLEN'S naturalist's LIBRARY. 



IV, sclater's moonal pheasant. LOPHOPHORUS 



SCLATERI. 



Lophophorus sdateri, Jerdon, Ibis, 1870, p. 147, nnd J. As. 

 Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 61 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 162, pi. 

 xiv.; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 20 (1872); Humeand 

 Marshall, Game Birds of India, i. p. 136, pi. (1878); 

 Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 681, pi. li. ; Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 282 (1893). 

 Chalcophasis sclateri, Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 55 (1873). 



Adult Male. — Top of the head covered with curly golden- 

 green feathers, changing into blue ; mantle and wings mostly 

 steel-green, changing into purple ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts 7vhife, the two former with black shaft-stripes ; 

 tail chestmit^ with a wide white ba7id at the extremity^ and the 

 basal part of the feathers black, barred and mottled with buff. 

 Total length, 26 inches; wing, ii"8; tail, 8*2; tarsus, 3*1. 



Adult Female. — Chiefly distinguished from those already 

 described by having the lower back/^/i? ochraceous-white, finely 

 mottled with dark brown ; tail black, with six or seven narrow 

 whitish-cross bars, and tipped with the same colour. 



Range. — Hills to the east and south-east of Sadiya, in the 

 extreme north-east of Assam. 



Very few specimens have been obtained of this extremely 

 scarce Moonal, and most, if not all, of the known examples 

 have been brought down by the hill-tribes (Mishmis and 

 Abors) to the fair held annually at Sadiya, the most easterly 

 station in Assam. 



THE CRESTLESS FIRE-BACKED PHEASANTS. GENUS 

 ACOMUS. 



Acoimis^ Reichenb. Nat. Syst. Vog. p. xxx. (1852). 



Type, A. erythrophthabnus (Raffl.). 



Tail composed of fourteen feathers, rather short and laterally 



compressed, or hen-like ; the third pair being somewhat longer 



than the central ones, and very much longer than the outer pair. 



