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what paler fulvous thaii in our bird. It is not known where 

 the bird has been brought from. 



2. Lophura nohilis, 



Euplocamus ignitus S. Mull., Verb, Land- en Volkenk. p, 376 (1839 — 

 44); Low, Sarawak, p. 411 (1848)-, Elliot, Ibis 1878, p. 414 

 (conclusion); Sharpe, Ibis 1879, p. 270; Pelz. (part.) Verb. Z. B. 

 Ges. Wien, XXIV, p. 531 (1880); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 800; 

 Nicholson, Ibis 1883, p. 90; Elliot, Auk, VIII, p. 15 (1891); 

 Hose, Ibis 1893, p. 422. 



Euplocamus nohilis Sclat., P. Z. S. 1863, p. 119, pi. XVI; id. List 

 of Phas. p. 7 (1863); Gray, List of Gallinae Br. Mus. p. 35(1867); 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 261; Gray, Hand-List B. II, p. 259 (1870); 

 Elliot, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 138; Elliot, Phas. pL XXVII (1872); 

 Wald. Ibis 1872, p. 382; Salvad. ücc. Born. p. 306 (1874); Sclat. 

 P. Z. S. 1875, p. 380; Sharpe, Ibis 1879, p. 234; Sclat. Ibis 

 1880, p. 371; Guillemard, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 416; Everett, List 

 of Birds Born. p. 199 (1889); Sclat. Ibis 1894, p. 310; Remy 

 Saint-Loup, Ois. des Pares, p. 313, f. 41 (1896). 



Lophura ignita Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. XXII, p. 288 (1893); Sharpe, 

 Ibis 1894, p. 544. 



Adult male. Similar in size and color to the preceding 

 species , with the following exceptions : The metallic color 

 on the lower back and rump constantly and very strikingly 

 darker , rather dark coppery bronze ; a very broad band , 

 covering the lower breast, upper abdomen and entire flanks, 

 uniform fiery bronze-red, the terminal half of each feather, 

 with few exceptions , being entirely of that color , without 

 any black markings. In most of the specimens the broad 

 cross-band is interrupted from behind by the exposed centre 

 of the belly which is black , but never is the band entirely 

 divided by the latter color. The red color of the cross- 

 band on the breast is much darker and more glossy than 

 the flanks of L. ignita and very much like the color of 

 the lower back and rump of the latter species. The color 

 of the centre tail-feathers does not differ from that found 

 in L. ignita and is generally more widely distributed , as 

 in some specimens not only the innermost and second, 



JVotes from the Leyden M.iiseiim, Vol. XVII. 



