496 ON PHASIANUS IGNITUS AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 



It is out of doubt that our present collections are quite 

 insufiBcient for a solution of these questions , which cannot 

 be studied upon specimens with nothing but » India", » Su- 

 matra", or even »Java" or » China" noted on the label. 

 What we want are a great number of well-sexed males 

 and females of different stages of age and from different 

 trustworthy localities, and the breeding of and making 

 careful observations upon hybrids between the different 

 species, especially between I/. VieilloH and L. nohilis , L. 

 Vieilloti and L. sumatrana, and between L. sumatrana SiuA 

 L. nohilis. 



Leyden Museum, December 1895. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XVtl. 



