248 aixen's naturalist's library. 



Lophitra diardi, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 290 

 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Head, throat, and crest black, the latter slightly 

 glossed with steel-blue; neck, mantle, and chest grey, very finely 

 mottled with black; wing-coverts with a black white- edged 

 band near the extremity ; lower back buff, glossed with gold ; 

 rump-feathers black, glossed with purplish-blue, widely margined 

 with dark crimson, shot with bronzy-red ; rest of under-parts 

 and tail, including the middle pairs of feathers^ blacky glossed 

 with greenish-blue ; naked skin on sides of head and wattles 

 red. Total length, 24 inches; wing, 9*8; tail, 13; tarsus, 3*4. 



Adult lemale. — Differs conspicuously from the female of the 

 other species in having the wing-coverts and scapulars blacky 

 with wide-set bujf bands ; the breast and sides of the belly 

 chestnut ; and the rest of the under-parts brownish-black, mar- 

 gined with white. Total length, 21 inches; wing, 8 "8; tail, 

 8"3 ; tarsus, 2 "9. 



Range. — Shan States, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin China. 



Hybrids between this species and the Lineated Kalij 

 Pheasant {Genn.^us lineatus) have been bred in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens, London. 



Nothing is known of the habits of this splendid Fire-Back, 

 but it is captured and brought down from the interior to 

 Bangkok, whence it is imported to this country in some num- 

 bers, and is by no means an uncommon bird in aviaries. 



THE WATTLED PHEASANTS. GENUS LOBIOPHASIS. 

 Lobiophasis, Sharpe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xiv. p. 373 (1874). 

 Type, Z. biilweri, Sharpe. 

 Tail composed of thirty-iwd^ feathers in the male {tiventy- 



* By far the largest numl^er of tail-feathers found in any of the Phasi- 

 anidcc. One of the Eared- Pheasants [Crossoptilon aiiritiim) has twenty- 

 four, and the smallest numlier occurs in the Painted Quails {Excalfactoria)^ 

 which have only eight. 



