190 ON PHASIANUS IGNITUS 



Ignitus and if. Vieilloti. The first he based upon Macartney's 

 bird, and added as synonyms Gallus Macartneyi Temm. , 

 Phasianus rufus Raffl. and Houppifer Diardi. Two figures , 

 Nos. 2029 and 2030 of plate 239, are added, but none 

 of them is a true representation of any known species. 

 No. 2030 would represent a red-tailed female of Lophura 

 were it not for the color of the naked face which is 

 red on the figure instead of blue. The second species, 

 M. Vieilloti, really belongs to the species with white 

 inner tail-feathers and white shaft-streaks on the flanks, 

 it is correctly represented by the figures Nos. 2031 — 33. 

 From this date up to the present day no mention has 

 been made any more of the true L. ignita , although its 

 name is wrongly made use of for the three other species 

 at many times and by the most different authors. 



In his »List of the specimens of Phasianidae" (P. Z. S. 

 1863, pp. 118 and 119) Sclater recognized three species 

 as belonging to his section Euplocamus: E. Vieilloti, E. 

 ignitus and E. nobilis. The first of these three species, 

 distinguished by the white-striped flanks and the pure 

 white central tail-feathers, has first been mentioned by 

 Temminck in Pig. et Gall. II, p. 277 (1813) as a variety 

 of his G. Macartneyi (see antea, p. 187). Under this latter 

 name Schinz has figured the same species on plate 93 of 

 his Nat. u. Abb. der Vög. (1833), and again on plate 70^) 

 of his Naturgesch. der Vög. (1853) , but the descriptions 

 on p. 248 of the first, and p. 147 of the second work 

 are mere translations of Temminck's description of the 

 adult male of G. Macartneyi and, consequently, must be 

 referred to L. ignita. 



To L. Vieilloti must also be referred the male bird 

 described by Raffles in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 320 (1822) 



1) On both these plates the central tail-feathers are pure white on the inner 

 and salmon-color on the outer webs; this is not correct as Hume stated in a 

 great number of specimens that the middle tail-feathers are always, even in 

 younger males, pure white on both webs. 



JSTotes from tlie Leyden JMuseuxn, "Vol. XVII. 



