AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 471 



Phasiamis Ignitus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc. IX, pi. 321 (about 



1800); Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. LXI (1801). 

 Gallus Macartneyi Temm. (part.) Pig. et Gall. II, p. 273 (1813) 



and III, p. 663 (1815); Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI, p. 218 



(1819); Schinz (descr., nee tab. 93), Naturg. und Abb. d. Vogel, 



p. 248 (1833); id. (letterpress, nee tab. 70), Naturgesch. d. Vög. 



p. 147 (1853). 

 Lophura ignita Flem. Philos, of Zool. II, p. 230 (1822). 

 Macartneya Macartiieyi Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 493 (1831). 

 Gallus ignitus Vieill. (part.) Gal. Ois. II, p. 29, nee pi. 207 (1834). 

 Gallophasis ignitus G, R. Gray, Gen. B. Ill, p, 498 (1845). 

 Macartneya ignitus (part.) Reichenb. Synopsis Avium, pi. CCXXXIX, 



fig. 2029 (1848). 

 ? Euplocamus sumalranus (2) Dubois, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) XLVII, 



p. 825 (1879)1). 



Adult male. General color black , the short feathers 

 on head and chin without any gloss ; crest , whole neck , 

 mantle, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, throat, chest and 

 upper breast glossy purplish blue , this color covering the 

 exposed terminal part of the feathers, while the hidden 

 basal part is dull black. Lower back and rump glossy fiery 

 bronze ; lower breast black , the feathers margined and 

 more or less broadly tipped with steel-green ; abdomen , 

 vent , thighs , under wing- and under tail-coverts sooty black 

 with scarcely any metallic gloss ; feathers of the flanks 

 black , the exposed parts of them steel-green or steel-blue , 

 which color is, to a greater or lesser extent, substituted 

 by a space of pale rusty yellow. On some feathers this 

 latter color covers the whole terminal part, on others it 

 only forms a more or less broad rhomboid patch , which 

 is flanked or even entirely surrounded by steel-green or 

 steel-blue. On all these feathers the rusty space is length- 

 ened along the shaft towards the base in the form of a 

 wedge. The rusty yellow spaces may not be identified with 

 the rusty shaft-streaks found on the flanks in young spe- 

 cimens of L. Vieilloti, as they in reality make the im- 



1) The black-tailed female here described and said to have been obtained in 

 Sumatra, might possibly belong to the present species. 



Notes from tlie Leyden ]Museum, Vol. XVII. 



