AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 191 



as Phasianus ignitus, while the female, as having no crest , 

 does not belong to the genus at all. Next his Ph. ignitus, 

 Raffles, in the same work p. 32 i, described Phasianus 

 rufus as a new species. This is evidently the female of 

 either L. Vieilloti or L. sumatrana, but being unable to 

 decide to which of both species it belongs, I was obliged 

 to range this name under the doubtful references. 



In his Tabl. Encyclop. Méth. Ois. pi. 237 (1823) 

 Vieillot figured L. Vieilloti under the name of Ph. ignitus, 

 and again in Gal. Ois. pi. 207 (1834) under the name of 

 Gallus ignitus^ while the description belonging to this 

 latter plate, as already explained (antea p. 189), cannot 

 be referred to L. Vieilloti. 



J. E. Gray, 111. lud. Orn. II, pi. 39 (1844), mentions 

 L. Vieilloti under the name of Euplocamus ignitus. 



His brother, G. R. Gray (List Specimens Birds, III, 

 p. 26, 1844) was the first who separated this species 

 from L. ignita , giving it the name Euplocamus Vieilloti. 

 Since that time L. Vieilloti has , with but few exceptions , 

 generally been considered a distinct species. In his Genera 

 of Birds, III, p. 498 (1845) G. R. Gray mentions it under 

 the generic name Gallophasis , Reichenbach (1. c.) as 

 Macartneya Vieilloti. 



The second species of Sclater's essay is E. ignitus. Unfor- 

 tunately this name is not bestowed upon Macartney's bird, 

 but upon a specimen in the British Museum , received 

 from a Mr. Reeves and said to have been sent from China. 

 This bird , which evidently had been kept in captivity , 

 does not agree with the true Phasianus ignitus as described 

 by Staunton , Latham and others , but differs from it in 

 having the middle tail-feathers pure white instead of ful- 

 vous and , for this reason , belongs to the species after- 

 wards described by Dubois under the name of ^. SMmaitrawws. 

 The true E. ignitus with chestnut flanks and fulvous central 

 tail-feathers is not mentioned at all by Sclater in his essay. 



To the red-flanked species with white central tail-feathers 

 must probably be referred the Fire-hacked Pheasant in 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XVII. 



