64 Lloyd's natural history. 



so that, in scratching the ground, she frequently struck them 

 with her feet. The reason for the young keeping in her rear 

 was not understood until, on a subsequent occasion, two 

 chicks were reared by a hen P. chinqta's, when it was ob- 

 served that they always kept in the same manner close behind 

 the mother, who held her tail widely spread, thus completely 

 covering them, and there they continually remained out of 

 sight, only running forward when called by the hen to pick up 

 some food she had found, and then immediately retreating to 

 their shelter. 



Nest. — A circular depression in the ground made of leaves 

 and twigs, slightly lined with a few of the birds' own feathers, 

 placed amongst grass among jungle {R. A. Clark). 



Eggs. — Like those of the Golden Pheasant. Average 

 measurements, 2 by i'44 inches (7?. A. Clark). 



IT. Germain's peacock-pheasant, polyplectron 



GERMAINI, 



Polyphdroii germaini^ Elliot, Ibis, 1866, p. 56; id. Monogr 

 Phasian. i. pi. 8 (1872); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xxii. p. 357 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Like the male of P. chi?iqins, but the whitish- 

 brown spots on the upper-parts are jjiuch smaller and closer 

 together ; the ocelli on the tail-feathers dark green with bluish- 

 violet reflections ; no white on the throat. Naked skin round 

 the eye crimson. Total length, 20 inches; wing, 7-5; tail, 

 10-5 ; tarsus, 2-5. 



Adult Female. — Differs chiefly from the female of P. chinquis 

 in having the ocelli on the mantle and upper tail-coverts, 

 though rudimentary, comparatively well-marked and glossed 

 with dark green, changing to purple ; those on the scapulars 

 and secondary quills bordered above with narrow ^-shaped 



