Mr. R. B. Sharpe on a remarkable new Pheasant. 373 



XLIX. — Description of a remarkable new Pheasant from 

 Borneo. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c, 

 Senior Assistant, Zoological Department, British Museum. 



The subject of the present notice will rival the remarkable 

 discoveries of pheasants for which Mr. Swinhoe and Pere 

 David have been noted during the last few years, and will be 

 a fit companion for Calophasis, Tetraophasis, and the other 

 beautiful new genera which have lately enriched the family 

 Phasianidse. I have no hesitation in referring the bird just 

 received by the Museum to a totally new and distinct genus, 

 which I shall call Lobiophasis, on account of the long pendent 

 lobes which ornament the sides of the throat. The metallic 

 plumage allies it to no other genus in particular, though it ap- 

 proaches Euplocamus more than any pheasant in the form 

 of the tail and arrangement of the plumage ; but it is distin- 

 guished from this genus by its bare head, which reminds one 

 of Numida. The tail is quite peculiar, all the outer feathers 

 having stiffened shafts, devoid of web for some distance. Like 

 Calophasis, this pheasant seems to be a mixture of several 

 genera hurled into one form ; but I consider the following short 

 diagnosis sufficient to distinguish it : — 



Lobiophasis, gen. n. 



Of the general form of Euplocamus ; but distinguished by 

 the metallic endings to the dorsal and breast-feathers, and 

 especially by the bare head, which is ornamented on each 

 side of the throat by long pendent wattles. The type is 



Lobiophasis Buhceri, sp. n. 



Above brown, all the feathers terminally margined with 

 metallic purple, of a harsh texture ; the neck-hackles simi- 

 larly coloured ; but here, owing to the individual plumes being- 

 divided, the general appearance of the metallic colouring is 

 more spotted than on the back and upper tail-coverts, Avhere the 

 terminal metallic margins produce a somewhat barred appear- 

 ance ; wing-coverts uniform with the back, and having the 

 same metallic spots ; quills light brown, the outer primary 

 with a pale whity-brown margin ; the secondaries darker, 

 and the innermost terminally margined with the same metallic 

 colour as the back ; lower back and rump-feathers uniform 

 with rest of back, but the greater upper tail-coverts white, 

 like the whole of the tail', head bare, with a large horn or 

 wattle on each side of the occiput, and with a long pendent 

 wattle on each side of the throat ; round the hind neck a 



