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the centre tail-feathers, and that the white of the exposed 

 parts is the result of the bleaching influence of the light. 

 This is the reason why Dr. Dubois has used the expression : 

 » Queue noire, les quatre rectrices médianes d'un blanc 

 roussatre, la barbe interne de la paire suivante egalement 

 d'un blanc roussatre" (Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) XLVII, p. 825). 



Another specimen, fully agreeing with the type and 

 our two Leyden specimens, is preserved in the Imperial 

 Zoological Museum at Vienna. It was obtained in exchange 

 from the Leyden Museum and is said to be brought from 

 Sumatra (see von Pelzeln , Verb. 1880 , p. 531). At last there 

 must be put in remembrance , as undoubtedly belonging to 

 this species , the specimen in the British Museum , mentioned 

 by Mr. Grant in Cat. XXII, p. 289, foot-note, under the 

 name Lophura sp. , with the following short but quite 

 sufficient description: » Resembles the male of L. ignita 

 (our L. nobilis) , but diflers in having the feathers down 

 the centre of the lower breast and belly entirely black , 

 those on the sides margined or largely mixed with black , 

 only the central part in some being rufous chestnut , and 

 the central tail-feathers are white." This is the same bird 

 described by Dr. Sclater in P. Z. S. 1863, p. 119, under 

 the name of Euplocamus ignitiis in the following terms : 

 » Niger, purpureo splendens, dorso imo igneo-ferrugineo , 

 lateribus pallide castaneis , uigro varus : rectr. 4 mediis 

 albis. Hab. probably Sumatra." This specimen is said to 

 be sent by Mr. Reeves from China; it looks as having 

 been kept in captivity. 



An ample description of this species (male and female) 

 is published under the name of Euplocomus sumatranus by 

 Dr. Vorderman (1. c.) , who had received the birds alive 

 from Palembaug , the same locality where our specimen 

 presented by Mr. van Schuylenburch had been obtained. 

 The female specimen had the tail red. As we may be sure 

 that male and female obtained at the same place will 

 belong to the same species, the female of L. sumatrana 

 has the tail red, and the black-tailed female described by 



Notes from, the Leyden. üMuseum, "Vol. XVII. 



