10 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Argustanus, Rafinesque, Analyse, p. 219 (1815). 
Type, A. areus (Linn.). 
Tail composed of ¢zwelve feathers; the middle pair enor- 
mously elongate (in the male), and more than four times as 
long as the outer pair. 
First primary flight-feather shor/est, the tenth Jdongest,; 
secondary quills enormously developed, much longer than 
the primaries, the eighth and ninth being nearly twice as long 
as the first. 
Sides of the face, throat, and fore-part of neck naked. 
Tarsus much longer than the middle toe and claw. 
I. THE ARGUS PHEASANT. ARGUSIANUS ARGUS. 
Phastanus argus, Linn. 8. N. 1. p. 272 (1766). 
Areus giganteus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 410 (1813), iii. p. 
678 (1815) ; Jardine and Selby, Ill. Orn. n. s. pls. 14 and 
15 (1837); Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pl. 11 (1872); Hume 
and Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 99, pl. (1878) ; Sclater, 
Ps 225: 1879; p- 1 ES, pls) Viljand Ville. 
Argus pavoninus, J. 1. Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool. i. pl. 36 (1039-32). 
Argusianus argus, Gould, B. Asia, vii. pl. 52 (1883); Ogitvic- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 363 (1893). 
(Late XXIX.) 
Adult Male—A short black crest ; general colour above black, 
chequered and mottled with buff and rufous ; lower back and 
rump duff, with rounded black spots; long middle tail-feathers 
whitish-buff with kidney-shaped black spots and blotches; 
primary quills beautifully patterned, and ornamented with 
close-set rows of black and rufous spots ; a rufous-brown band, 
finely dotted with white, on the basal part of the inner web 
only, divided from the dull-blue shaft by a yellow line regu- 
larly barred with black ; secondary quills equally wonderful in 
their markings, and having the outer webs decorated witha row 
of large ocelli, gradually increasing in size towards the extremity 
