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pressiou of being the predomiuant color of the flanks , 

 which is never the case with the narrow shaft-streaks in 

 the latter species. 



The wings are sooty black , the outer webs of the pri- 

 maries earthy brown , the upper wing-coverts broadly tipped 

 with steel-blue with a greenish gloss under a certain light. 

 Tail strongly graduated, the outermost pair being the 

 shortest, the second from the centre the longest. The six 

 outermost pairs are entirely sooty black and straight, the 

 two innermost strongly bent outward, respectively down- 

 ward , when the tail is laterally compressed as in the genus 

 Gallus, and uniform fulvous or havannah-color. Iris red, 

 bill horny white, wattles and bare space covering the 

 whole sides of the head smalt-blue , feet red. Wing 28 

 cm., outermost tail-feathers 11, innermost 23, tarsus 10,5, 

 culmen 3,5. 



Adult female. There is no authentical female known 

 of this species, but it may be expected that the females 

 of both species , in which the centre tail-feathers of the 

 males are fulvous instead of white {L, ignita and L. nobilis), 

 will be characterized by black tail-feathers. As L. nobilis 

 is unknown in Sumatra, we may suppose that Sumatran 

 females with black tail-feathers will belong to this species. 



At present I know only three black-tailed female spe- 

 cimens being recorded as obtained in Sumatra, namely the 

 female described by Dubois under the name oi Euplocamus 

 sumatraniis , in the Museum at Brussels, and two speci- 

 mens making part of the collections of the Zoological Garden 

 at Amsterdam , kindly lent me , together with all the other 

 Euplocamus-ST^ecimens in its possession , by the Director , 

 Dr. Kerbert. Unfortunately in none of these three speci- 

 mens the mentioned habitat may incontestably be depended 

 upon , the first having probably been obtained , as I am 

 informed by Dr. Dubois , from Major Henrici , who has 

 also collected in Borneo, while the two latter have died 

 in the Garden at Amsterdam and are only supposed to 

 have been brought from Sumatra. 



Notes from tlie Ley den Museum, Vol. XVII. 



