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by Dubois in Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) Vol. 47, p. 825 (1879), 

 who described an adult male from Sumatra, which fully 

 agrees with Reeves' specimen in the British Museum. 

 Another male of this species , obtained from the Leyden 

 Museuni, is said by von Pelzeln , Verb. zool. bot. Ges. 

 Wien, XXIX, p. 531 (1880), to make part of the Imp. 

 Mus. at Vienna. In this paper von Pelzeln , in accepting 

 Elliot's opinion , adds as a third species E. sumatranus 

 Dubois ; Reeves' bird described as a hybrid by Elliot (Ibis 

 1878, p. 413), is not recognized as E. sumatranus but 

 added to the synonymy of E. ignitus (in the wider sense 

 with inclusion of E. nobilis) , while G. Macartneyi Temm. 

 is wrongly said to be synonymous with E. sumatranus. 



Before closing this essay I am sorry to say that our 

 knowledge of this genus is far from sufficient and that 

 many vexing questions are still left undissolved. 



With regard to the geographical distribution we find 

 that the only species known from the continent, with the 

 inclusion of the islands of Salanga and Penang, is L. 

 Vieilloti, which is also spread over North-eastern and 

 Western Sumatra (see antea p. 185). Opposite the Highlands 

 of Padang, in the Residency of Palembang on the East- 

 coast of the island , it is substituted by L. sumatrana , 

 hitherto the only species obtained in that district. From 

 the southernmost part of the island, the Lampongs, no 

 Lophura has been stated as yet. 



Opposite the coast of Palembang, and only separated 

 from it by a rather narrow channel , lies the Island of 

 Banka which , as we have seen before , is inhabited by 

 L. nobilis. As this latter species is the only one found 

 in Borneo , where it is spread over the whole island , and 

 as it is hitherto not found in Billiton , it is a rather strange- 

 looking fact to find it in Banka , which is oruithologically 

 more closely related to Sumatra than it is to Borneo. 



Taking into consideration the trading connections between 

 Banka and Palembang the possibility of introducing to 



Notes from tlae Leyden Museuin, "Vol. XVII, 



