THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. 65 



black and buff bands. Total length, i8-6 inches; wing, 7; 

 tail, 8-5; tarsus, 2-3. 

 Range. — Cochin China. 



III. THE MALAYAN PEACOCK-PHEASANT. POLYPLECTRON 

 PICAI.CARATUM. 



Favo bicalcaraius^ Linn. S. N. i. p. 268 (1766). 



Polyplectron bicalcarattn/i, Sclater, List of Phas. p. 12, pi. 12 

 (1863); Gould, B. x\sia, vii. pi. 51 (1870); Elliot, 

 Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 7 (1872); Hume and Marshall, 

 Game Birds Ind. i. p. 113, pi. (1878); Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 357 (1893). 



Polyplectron hardivickii^ J. E. Gray, III. Lid. Zool. i. pi. 37, ii. 

 pi. 42, fig. I, and P. li/icafinn, id. op. cit, i. pi. 38 (1830- 



32). 



Adult Male. — A short crest glossed with purplish-green ; bars 

 on neck-feathers glossed with purple ; ground-colour of the 

 upper-parts buff, thickly dotted and mottled with black ; the 

 ocelli on the wings and tail-feathers entirely rich green in 

 one light, and purplish or blue in another; only the middle 

 pair of tail-feathers, and longer upper tail-coverts with ocelli 

 on each side of the shaft, and these are co7iflue?it^ and not 

 divided from one another by a pale band ; on all the outer tail- 

 feathers, only one ocellus on the outer %veb ; naked skin round 

 the eye red. Total length, 22 inches; wing, 8-2; tail^ 10; 

 tarsus, 2*8. 



Adult Female. — Distinguished from the female of P. chinquis 

 by having the ground-colour of the back, wings, and rump 

 brownish buff, mottled with black ; feathers of the nuuitle and 

 wings with a black blotch near the tip ; longer upper tail-coverts 

 and middle pair of ti ilfe.ithers with paired ocelli ; outer tail 

 feathers with no ocelli on the inner webs. Total length, 18 

 inches; wing, 7*1 ; tail, 6'5 ; tarsus, 2*3. 



Range. — From the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra to the 

 South Tenasserim. 



