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»toutes les pennes cle la queue rousses", is Acomus erythroph- 

 thalmus , while the birds , described on p. 280 as »des oi^eaux 

 jeunes preoant la livree des adultes", with the tail-feathers 

 »a moitie rousses et moitié noires", belong to Acomus 

 pyronotus. 



This mixing up of G. Macartneyi {L. ignita) with other 

 species of the genus and even with the allied genus Acomus 

 is the reason why Temminck could speak of having suc- 

 cessively received more than twenty specimens of this species, 

 while only a single specimen is at present found in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



The article on Gallus Macartneyi in Shaw, Gen. Zool. 

 XI, p. 218 (1819), is a mere resumption of Temminck's 

 above mentioned description with the inclusion of all its 

 mistakes. 



In 1822, Fleming, Philos. of Zool. II, p. 230, described 

 the same bird as Lophura ignita^ and as the genus Zop/ittra 

 is to be kept separate from Gallus as well as from Phasianus, 

 this name as being the oldest must be accepted. 



Latham, in his Gen. Hist. VIII , p. 184 (1823), describes 

 his Fire-backed Pheasant as having the upper part of the 

 belly ferruginous, varying into deep orange and »the 

 four middle tail-feathers white". He adds: » there 

 are two sickle-shaped ones , fourteen inches in length ; these 

 are white, with the ends black." Although this diagnosis 

 is not quite correct , there can be no doubt about this bird 

 being our L. sumatrana , which is here for the first time 

 mentioned in literature. The cited habitat » Malay Coast" 

 is evidently erroneous. 



In the same work, p. 204, we find a bird described 

 under the name of Sumatran Pheasant as having the breast- 

 feathers ferruginous with black bands , and those on the 

 abdomen white and dusky, tail like back, » Sumatra". 

 This bird is a female and belongs, on account of its 

 chestnut brown tail , to either L. sumatrana or Vieilloti. 



I am unable to decide under which species to place 

 Phasianus rufus, and ignitus Gray in Griffith' ed. Cuv. 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museu.m, "Vol. XI VII. 



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