THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS, 65 
black and buff bands. Total length, 18-6 inches ; wing, 7; 
tail, 8-5; tarsus, 2°3. 
Range.—Cochin China. 
Ill. THE MALAYAN PEACOCK-PHEASANT, POLYPLECTRON 
BICALCARATUM. 
Pavo bicalcaratus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 268 (1766). 
Polyplectron bicalcaratum, Sclater, List of Phas. p2) £2, pl. 12 
(1863); Gould, B. Asia, vii. pl. 51 (1870); Elliot, 
Monogr. Phasian. i. pl. 7 (1872); Hume and Marshall, 
Game Birds Ind. i. p. 113, pe sys): Ogilvie-Grant, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 357 (1893). 
Polyplectron hardwickit, J. ¥. Gray, Ul. Ind. Zool. i. ple 37.10 
plaza. ae rand 2 fineatum, id. op. cit. i. pl. 33) (1830= 
32). 
Adult Male.—A short crest glossed with purplish-green ; bars 
on neck-feathers glossed with purple ; ground-colour of the 
upperparts duf, thickly dotted and mottled with d/ach y the 
ocelli on the wings and tail-feathers entirely rich green in 
one light, and purplish or blue in another ; only the middle 
pair of tail-feathers, and longer upper tail-coverts with ocelli 
on each side of the shaft, and these are confluent, and not 
dwided from one another by a pale band ; on all the outer tail- 
feathers, ozly one ocellus on the outer wed, naked skin round 
the eye red. Total length, 22 inches ; wing, 8:2; fail), 10. 
tarsus, 2°8. 
Adult Female.— Distinguished from the female of P chinguts 
by having the ground-colour of the back, wings, and rump 
brownish buff, mottled th black » feathers of the mantle and 
wings with a black blotch near the tip ; longer upper tail-coverts 
and middle pair of tatl-feathers with fatred ocelii,; outer tail 
feathers with xo ocelli on the inner webs. Total length, 18 
inches ; wing, 7°1 ; tail, 6°5; tarsus, 2°3. 
Range——From the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra to the 
South Tenasserim, 
12 r 
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