AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 177 



are always black with rather broad chestnut-brown ter- 

 minal edge. The feathers on chin and upper throat are 

 white with more or less large chestnut tips. The eyes and 

 naked parts do not differ from those of the male, with 

 the exception of the feet, which are wax-yellow. Wing 

 23 — 25 cm., tail 17, tarsus 8,5, culmen 3 — 3,5. 



Habitat. Borneo (spread over the whole island) and 

 Banka. 



In possession of the Leyden Museum are the following 

 specimens. 



From Borneo: Adult male, Doeson , Barito River (S, 

 Muller); adult male, Pleyharie, South Borneo (Semmelink 

 1867); adult male, Borneo (Coll.? 1875); adult male and 

 female, West Borneo (Teysmann 1878); adult female, 

 Mount Kenepai, West-Borneo (Büttikofer 1898). 



From Banka: Adult male (Teysmann 1872); adult male 

 and female (Vosmaer 1872). The Banka specimens cannot 

 be distinguished in any respect from those from Borneo. 



3. Lophura sumatrana. 



Fire-backed Pheasant Lath. Gen. Hist. VIII, p. 184 (1823) »Malay 



coast» . 

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



(1834) ^Sumatra». 

 Euplocamus ignitus Jard. Nat. Libr. , Orn. Ill, p. 214,? pis. XIX and 



XX (1836); G. R. Gray, List of Spec, of Birds, III, p. 26 (1844) 



(as far as specimen a is concerned); Sclater (nee Latham), P. Z. 



S. 1863, p. 119; id. Ibis 1894, p. 310. 

 Euplocamus Vieilloti y^ nohilis Elliot, Ibis 1878, p. 411. 

 Euplocamus sumatranus Dubois , Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) XLVII , p. 825 



(1879)1); von Pelz. Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, XXIX, p. 531 (1880); 



id. Vorderman, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XLIX, p. 98 (1890). 

 Lophura sp. Grant, Cat. B, Br. Mus. XXII, p. 289, footnote (1893). 



i) Dubois has described an adult male and female as belonging to this 

 species, but the female having the tail black and it being not out of doubt 

 that it really has been brought from Sumatra, I consider it, on account 

 of its black tail , as belonging to either L. ignita or L. nobilis (see the syno- 

 nymy of L. ignita, antea p. 171, and text, p. 173). . 

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