244 Lloyd's natural history. 



First flight-feather shorter than the second, which is about 

 equal to the tenth ; fifth and sixth slightly the longest. 



A large naked red or blue patch on each side of the head, 

 and a large wattle of the same colour on each side of the throat. 



Male with a full crest, composed of more or less long bare 

 shafts, with a bunch of plumes at the tip. Feet armed with a 

 pair of stout spurs (absent in the female). 



I. THE MALAYAN CRESTED FIRE-BACK. LOPHURA RUFA. 



Fhasianus ignitus, Raffles (nee Shaw), Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 



320 (1822) [male]; Vieillot, Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 363, 



pi. 237, fig. 2 (1823). 

 Phasianus rufiis, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 321 (1822) 



[female]. 

 Enplocamus vieilloti, Gray, List Gen. B. 2nd ed. p. 77 (1841) ; 



Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 15 (1852); Sclater and Wolf, Zool. 



Sketches (2), pi. 36 (1867); Hume and Marshall, Game 



Birds of India, i. p. 213, pi. (1878). 

 Euplocamus Ignitus, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 26 (1872). 

 Euplocamus sumatranus, Dubois, Bull. Ac. Belg. (2), xlvii. 



p. 825 (1879). 

 Lophura rufa, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 286 



(1893). 



Adult Male. — General plumage, including the crest, back, and 

 under-parts, black, beautifully glossed with purplish-blue ; lower 

 back and rump fiery bronzy-red ; feathers of the sides andfla?iks 

 with ivhite (or sometimes chestnut) shaft-stripes* ; middle pairs 

 of tail-feathers white; naked sides of the head and wattles 

 bright smalt-blue; feet bright red. Total length, 27 inches, 

 wing, n'6; tail, 10*2; tarsus, 4*3. 



Adult Female. — General colour above chestnut, redder and 

 darker on the neck and finely mottled with black ; feathers of 



* In some examples, especially in Sumatran birds (the Etiplocamns 

 sumatranus, Dubois, quoted above), the shaft-stripes are rufous-buff or 

 chestnut instead of white, but this difference is not dependent on locality, 

 and is apparently of no specific importance. 



