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Adult male. Similar in color to L. ignita, with the 

 exception of the centre tail-feathers , which are pure white 

 with a faint ochrous tinge on the basal part as far as it is 

 hidden by the upper tail-coverts. In one of the two 

 specimens in the Leyden Museum only the innermost pair 

 are pure white, while the second are only white on their 

 inner web ; in the other specimen the two innermost pairs 

 are entirely white , as also the inner web of the third 

 pair. The red color of the feathers on the flanks is darker 

 than in L. ignita , but a trifle lighter than in L, nohilis^ 

 and extends more or less over the sides of the breast, 

 but never covers this latter entirely as is the case with 

 L. nobilis. Iris red , naked skin on the sides of the head blue , 

 bill horny yellow , feet red. Wing 27,5 — 28,5 cm. ; outermost 

 pair of tail-feathers 14 , longest 24,5 ; tarsus 11 ; culmen 3,8. 



Adult female (after the description of Dr. Vordermau's 

 in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 1890, p. 100). Above reddish 

 brown, uniform on head and neck, vermiculated with black 

 on the rest ; feathers on the fore-neck reddish brown , edged 

 on both sides with white, on the chest black, edged with 

 white and narrowly tipped with reddish brown ; feathers 

 on breast and flanks black with broad white margins, on 

 the hinder part of the flanks dull black with indistinct 

 brown and white edgings. The predominant color on the 

 abdomen is white, here and there interrupted by fulvous 

 black spots ; thighs black with white edgings to the feathers ; 

 under tail-coverts black with brown terminal shaft-spots 

 and brown edgings; tail-feathers chestnut-brown 

 with black vermiculations on the central pairs. Iris red, 

 bare space on the sides of the head blue, bill dark, lower 

 mandible light horn-color, feet pale flesh-color. Wing 

 25,5 cm.; tail 15,7; tarsus 8,2; culmen 3,5. 



Habitat. Residency of Palembang, South Eastern Sumatra. 



The Leyden Museum is in possession of two fully adult 

 males of this species. One of them is , with regard to its 

 stuffing, of a very early date and bears in Temminck's 

 handwriting the name Lophophorus Macartneyi, though no 



Notes from tUe Leyden Museum, Vol. XVII. 



