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15; von Pelz. Verb. zool. bot. Ges. Wien , XXIX, p. 532 (1880); 



Kelbain, Ibis 1881, p. 532; Oates, B. Burmah, II, p. 320 (1883); 



Muller, J. f. 0. 1885, p. 160; Vorderman , Nat. Tijclscbr. Ned. 



Ind. XLIX, p. 101 (1890); Hagen, Tijdscbr. Aardrijksk. Genootsch. 



Amst. 1890, p. 163; Sclat. Ibis 1894, p. 311; Remy St.-Loup, 



Oiseaux des Pares, p. 310 (1896). 

 Gallophasis Vieilloti G. R. Gray, Gen. B. Ill, p. 498 (1845). 

 Macartneya Vieilloti Reicbenb. Syn. Av. Gallinacea , pi. 239 , figs. 



2031—33 (1848). 

 Euplocamus rufus Hume, Str. F. V, p. 121 (1877). 

 Lophura rufa i) (part.) Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mas. XXII, p. 286 (1893). 



Adult male. Differs from the preceding species in 

 having the flanks glossy blue with pure white shaft-streaks, 

 very strongly contrasting with the glossy blue lower sur- 

 face. The two innermost pairs of tail-feathers are pure 

 white with the exception of the extreme base which is 

 black ; on the next pair the inner web only is white , or 

 white with black markings. Iris red, bare space of the 

 face blue , feet red , especially the front of the tarsi. Wing 

 27 — 28 cm., shortest (outermost) tail-feathers 13, longest 

 26; tarsus 10 — 11; culmen 4. 



Immature male. A very interesting stage of plumage 

 is represented by a specimen making part of the collection 

 in the Zoological Garden at Amsterdam. The general color 

 of this bird is black, but the feathers on crest, neck, 

 mantle, upper back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, throat, 

 chest and partly also of the flanks have already assumed 

 the steel-blue gloss of the adult stage. On the lower back 

 and rump many of the feathers show the full color of the 

 adult, being black at the base and broadly tipped with 



1) I cannot agree with Mr. Grant in adopting, on account of its priority, 

 this name for the present species. The name Fkasianus rufus is hestowed hy 

 Raffles upon a female, obtained by his collectors »in the Island of Sumatra 

 and its vicinity". The same collectors also obtained an incontestable male of 

 L. Vieilloti which is described by Raffles under the name of Phasianus ignitus, 

 and therefrom we might conclude that both birds must belong to one and the 

 same species. There is, however, no absolute certainty that both specimens have 

 been found together in the same locality, and the descriptions of Raffles' suiting 

 L. sumatrana Q of Vorderman's as well, I placed it under the doubtful references. 



Notes from the Leyden IVLuseuixi, "Vol. X"VII. 



