AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 187 



The same bird again is , under the name of Fire-hacked 

 Pheasant , the subject of a description in Latham's General 

 Synopsis of Birds, Suppl. II, p. 274 (1802), but here are 

 only the flanks stated to be red, and nothing is said about 

 the color of the tail, which was, as Latham says, ))muti- 

 lated , so as to make it impossible to ascertain of what 

 length it had been originally." 



Somewhat later, in his Snppleraentum Indicis Ornitho- 

 logici, p, LXI ^), the same author described the bird under 

 the name of Phasianus ignitus as follows: »Ph. niger, cha- 

 lybeo nitens , lateribus corporis rufis, dorso imo 

 igneo-ferr u gi neo, rectricibus intermediis sub- 

 fulvis. Hab. in Java?" 



In his Histoire naturelle des Pigeons et des Gallinacés, 

 Vol. II, p. 273 (1813), Temminck described this species 

 under the name of Gallus Macartneyi. The essential part of 

 the description of the adult male is contained in the fol- 

 lowing words:.... »la poitrine et le ventre sont 

 d'un noir a reflets violets, les plumes des 

 flancs ont leurs extrémités d'un roux tres 

 brillant, . . . . les quatre pennes implantées au 

 centre de la queue forment Tarcboutant, elles sont 

 d'un roux cl a ir." 



Later on, p. 277, Temminck describes as a variety of 

 this species a bird with »tout le plumage d'une teinte plus 

 violacee, les plumes des flancs terminées de 

 blanc et les quatre pennes du milieu de la 

 queue d'un blanc pur," This » variety" can only be 

 relative to Lophura Vieilloti, and the » female", the descrip- 

 tion of which immediately follows on p. 278 , is not the 

 female of L. ignita sive Macartneyi, but very likely that 

 of either L. Vieilloti or L. sumatrana. The bird, described 

 on p. 279 as the young male of Gallus Macartneyi, with 



1) This supplement bears the date of 1801, but as the author quoted here 

 the article in App. II of his General Synopsis, which is dated 1802, the 

 «Supplementum" must have been published afterwards. 



Notes from the Leyden MLuseuni, Vol. XVII. 



