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256. Lobiophasis Bulweri. 



Lohiophasis Buhceri Sharpe, Ann. Mag. Nat. His. (4) XVI, p. 73 

 (1874); Everett, L. B. Born. p. 198. 



Four males and four females from Mount Liang Koeboeng 

 and from the Bruuy River (Upper Mahakkam). — Iris red, 

 bare skin on face and the wattles sky-blue, hind edging 

 of the erect ear-wattles in the fully adult male black, con- 

 sisting of a very short, brush-like covering of scale-like 

 hairs, bill horny brown, lower mandible horny blue, feet 

 coral-red. 



This bird is, like the previous species, very shy and living 

 very retired in the thickest mountain-forest. Two of the 

 above mentioned females were caught in snares by my 

 Dyak huntsmen, and the same is said in Mr. von Berch- 

 told's annotations about the specimens obtained on the 

 upper Mahakkam. It is of interest that, while the occi- 

 pital feathers in an adult male are steel-blue and rather 

 short, they are, iu another adult male with still more de- 

 veloped spurs and strongly developed testes (probably in 

 the breeding-season) lengthened to a kind of crest, and 

 reddish brown with black tips. This crested specimen has 

 the wattles very strongly developed and, as mentioned 

 above, the hind edge of the ear-wattles covered with a 

 kind of brush-like hairs. As a rule, I suppose, the wattles 

 will show the greatest development in the breeding season, 

 the male with strongly developed testes and full plumage, 

 obtained in December, has the wattles very long and broad, 

 while in others showing signs of moulting and caught in 

 October, have the wattles less fully developed. Besides the long 

 ear- and baird-wattles, the adult males show a third pair 

 of wattles, though very small, halfway between eye and 

 nostril. All our fully adult specimens have chin and throat 

 thinly covered with short black feathers. In adult males 

 the spur is less strongly developed than in the genus Lo- 

 phura, and not longer than 12 mm., while in the female the 

 spur is only represented by a conspicuous knob. As to the 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseuna , Vol. XXI. 



