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eight in the female), compressed and pointed ; the middle pairs 

 being very much curved and more than twice as long as the 

 outer pairs, which have little or no web. In all the feathers, 

 the shaft extends considerably beyond the web, and in the 

 outer pairs it terminates in a sharp point. 



The first flight-feather is much shorter than the second, 

 which is about equal to the tenth ; the fifth is somewhat the 

 longest. 



In the male the head is almost entirely naked, with the ex- 

 ception of a few feathers down the middle of the crown, and it 

 is ornamented with three pairs of wattles ; a large pair, one on 

 each side of the head, a very large one on each side of the 

 throat, and a small pair at the base of the upper mandible. 



The feet in the male are armed with a pair of short stout 

 spurs. 



The plumage of the sexes is quite different. Only one 

 species is known. 



1. bulwer's wattled pheasant, lobiophasis bulweri. 

 Lobiophasis bulweri, Sharpe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xiv. p. 373 

 (1874); Gould, B. Asia,vii. pi. 13 (1875); Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1876, p. 465, pi. xliv. ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xxii. p. 292 (1893). 

 Lobiophasis castaneieaudatus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 94; 

 Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 12 (1877). 

 {Plate XX.) 

 Adult Male. — Neck and chest dark crimson ; rest of plumage 

 black, each feather margined with steel-blue ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail pure white ; bill horn-colour ; naked skin of head 

 and wattles bright blue ; feet and toes red. Total length, 35 

 inches; wing, 10*3; tail, 18; tarsus, 3"5- 



Immature Male (L. castaneicaudatus). — Differs from the adult 

 in having the top of the head, chin, and throat thickly covered 

 with purplish-black feathers mixed with rufous, the blue wattles 

 but slightly developed; the dark crimson on the neck and 



