230 Lloyd's natural history. 



orange, the latter marked on the sides and base with emerald- 

 ^reen. Total length, 23 inches ; wing, cy?, ; tail, 6*8 ; tarsus, 

 2-9. 



Adult Female. — We have never been able to examine a female 

 example except in aviaries, but it appears to resemble the female 

 of T. temmincki. 



Range. — South-eastern China ; mountains between Fo-kien 

 and Kiang-si. ? Also the hills in the interior of Quang-si. 



Habits — Abbe David found this somewhat aberrant species 

 fairly common in the chain of mountains separating Fo-kien 

 from Kiang-si. It is known to the natives by the same local 

 names as T. temmincki, which bird it closely resembles in its 

 habits, and its flesh is equally excellent for the table. Of the 

 many specimens he examined in October and November not a 

 single male was seen in female plumage, though at that season 

 one would expect to find the young males of the year in that 

 garb, and David came to the conclusion that this species 

 differed from all the other members of the genus in getting its 

 fully adult plumage at the first moult. 



THE MOONAL PHEASANTS. GENUS LOPHOPHORUS. 



Lophophorus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 355 (18 13). 



Type, L. refulgens (Temm.). 



Tail composed of eighteen feathers, moderately long (shorter 

 than the wing) and rounded, the outer pair being somewhat 

 shorter than the middle pair. 



The first flight-feather considerably shorter than the tenth, 

 the fifth slightly the longest. 



Male with an elongate crest of semi-upright spade-shaped 

 plumes or with the top of the head (in L. sclateri) covered with 

 curled feathers. A nearly naked space round the eye, and the 

 feet armed with a stout spur. 



Sexes quite different in plumage ; most of the upper-parts in 

 the male brilliantly metallic. 



