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chest much brighter, and the upper tail-coverts and tail chest )iut^ 

 and shaped hke those of the female. 



Adult Female. — Above brownish-buff, incHning to rufous on 

 the wings, and all finely mottled with black ; below rufous and 

 similarly mottled ; upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut, with 

 some fine black markings. Total length, 20 inches ; wing, 9*4 ; 

 tail, 6*4 ; tarsus, 37. 



Range. — Mountain forests of Sarawak, Northern Borneo. 



The male of this magnificent Pheasant, with its curious 

 wattled head and many-feathered pure white tail, is strikingly 

 different from all the other birds of its kind. It was first 

 obtained by Sir Hugh Low, who gave the specimen to Gover- 

 nor Sir Henry Bulwer (after whom it was named), in the 

 mountains bordering the Lawas River in 1874, and since 

 that date a number of specimens have been sent to Europe, 

 but good skins, with perfect tail-feathers, are difficult to obtain, 

 and still command a high price in this country. 



A few years after Dr. Sharpe described the first examples, he 

 received from the same locality male and female specimens, 

 which, in the opinion of Mr. Sclater and the late Mr. Gould, 

 represented a second and perfectly distinct species of Lobio- 

 phasis. This male had the tail chestnut, comparatively short, 

 and much like that of the female of Z. buhveri. Acting 

 against his own better judgment. Dr. Sharpe described this 

 bird under the name of Z. castaneicaudatus^ but shortly after 

 another male example arrived, in which the chestnut tail- 

 feathers were being replaced by the white feathers of Z. buhveri, 

 clearly showing that the chestnut-tailed bird is merely the 

 immature of the white-tailed form. We are informed that the 

 perfect white tail is not assumed till the male is in his third 

 year, but this requires confirmation, and it appears to me more 

 probable that the full plumage is assumed in the second 

 year. 



Habits. — Very little is known about the Wattled Pheasant, 



