76 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Argus rheinardtt, Maingonnat, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vii. p. 
xxv. (1882). 
Lheinardtius ocellatus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 
367 (1893). 
Adult Male—General colour dark brown, mixed here and 
there, especially on the under-parts, with rufous, and thickly 
covered with small white spots and markings; upper tail- 
coverts and the enormously elongate middle pair of tail-feathers 
grey, thickly covered with large spots and markings of chest- 
nut, the spots on each side of the shaft with black central 
rings and smaller rounded dots of white; outer tail-feathers 
reddish-brown, thickly covered with round white spots sur- 
rounded by rings of black. ‘Total length, about seven feet , 
wing, 13°5 inches; tail, 5 feet; tarsus, 3-5 inches; middle 
toe and claw, 3°7. 
Adult Female-—Crest smaller than in the male; general 
colour above umber-brown, transversely mottled with black 
and buff, these markings being stronger on the secondaries and 
tail-feathers ; below brown, finely mottled with black. Total 
length, about 31 inches; wing, 11°5; tail, 14°53; tarsus, 
3°4- 
Range.—Mountains in the interior of Tonkin. 
This pheasant, still one of the rarest in collections, was first 
described in 1856 from some tail-feathers in the Paris Museum. 
Nothing more was known of it till 1882, when several pairs 
were obtained by the French during the Tonkin War, and in 
course of time found their way to Paris. Of these, the 
British Museum was fortunate enough to secure a fine adult 
pair, which were subsequently beautifully mounted by Mr. 
Pickhardt, the well-known taxidermist, and may now be seen 
exhibited in a case along with the Common Argus-Pheasant 
at the Natural History Museum. Nothing is recorded about 
this bird’s habits, but they probably do not differ greatly from 
those of the Common Argus, 
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