AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 189 



III, pp. 28—30 (1829). The first is a female, the second 

 a male ; both are very unsufficiently described. Ph. castaneus 

 mentioned in the same work , is based upon a female 

 from Penang and therefore belongs to L. Vieilloti. 



Lesson, in his Traite d'Ornithologie , p. 493 (1831), 

 provided Temminck's Gallus Macartneyi (our L. ignita) 

 with a new generic name, calling it Macartneya Macartneyi, 



The description of Gallus Macartneyi in Schinz, Nat. 

 Abb. Vög. p. 248 (1833) , is a mere translation from 

 Temminck's description of the adult male of his Gallus 

 Macartneyi in Pig. et Gall. II, p. 276, and must therefore 

 be referred to L. ignita , while on plate 93 , belonging to 

 the letterpress , L. Vieilloti is represented instead of X. ignita. 



Vieillot, Gal. Ois. 11, p. 29 (1834), furnished us, under 

 the name of Gallus ignitus , with a compilation made up 

 after two different descriptions , wherein he described the 

 bird as having the feathers of the flanks »terminées par 

 une teinte orangee tres eclatante", and the middle tail- 

 feathers »d'un roux clair ou blanches." I need not say 

 that only the birds with red central tail-feathers , as also 

 his latin diagnosis, can be referred to L. ignita and those 

 with white ones belong to L. sumatrana , while plate 207 

 represents L. Vieilloti. The mentioned latin diagnosis of 

 the male is copied from Latham's Supplement to the Index 

 Ornithologicus ; that of the female, describing the tail as 

 red, must be referred to either L. Vieilloti or sumatrana. 



In Gueriu Meneville, Icon. Kèg. Anim. Ois. pi. 43, f. 

 3 (1829 — 38), the name Houppifer ignitus is used, but no 

 description added (vide an tea under » doubtful references", 

 p. 170). 



In his Genera of Birds, Vol. Ill, p. 498 (1845), G. R. 

 Gray distinguished two species: Gallophasis ignitus of which. 

 he considers Phasianus rufus Raffles to be the female, 

 and G. Vieilloti, which he bases upon plate 207 in 

 Vieillot's Galerie des Oiseaux. 



Reichenbach, in his Synopsis Avium, list of the Galli- 

 naceae (1848), also distinguished two species: Macartneya 



ISTotes from tlae Leyden Museum , Vol. XVII. 



