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PHASIANIDyE. 



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n, Silver Pheasant ; i>, Gold Pheasant ; c, Ileevcs's Pheasant (Syrmaticui Kenerii), males. 



to the Lophaphori ; and P. eUbo-crittalut to be an Euplocamvs, which, 

 even more 'immediately than . iyniliu, forms a transition from the 

 genus P/naianut to the genus Gallut. 



The Argus Pheasant, which is notaspecies of /Vuuianu*[PAVO!<[D.K], 

 has been brought alive to this country, and a specimen is now in the 

 Gardens of the Zoological Society of London in the Regent's Park. 



Euplocamut (Temin.). Sir George Staunton, in his ' Embassy to 

 China,' first made this highly-interesting form known to European 



presents to his guest of several specimens, and among them was this 

 beautiful pheasant, which was sent to England and described by 

 Dr. Shaw. 



E. ignitui, the Fine-Backed Pheasant of Java, the Macartney Cock, 

 Pluuianut ignitus, Latham. Length of adult male about two feet. 

 Skin of the nostrils stretching backwards over the sides of the head 

 behind the eyes, and bluish-purple. A crest upon the crown of the 

 head composed of naked-shafted feathers, expanding at their tips into 

 slender spreading barbs. Head, neck, breast, belly, and upper part 

 of the back, deep chalybean or steel-blueshot black; lower part of the 



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Finc-Backert Pheasant (Euplocamut ignitut), male. 



zoologists. His host at Battavia had, it appears, a very curious 

 collection in the several departments of natural history. He made 



Fine-Backed Pheasant (Eaplocamta igtutm), female. 



back fiery orange-red or flame-colour, varying in intensity according 

 to the incidence of the light, and passing like a zone round the body, 

 though more obscure on the abdomen ; rump and tail-coverts broad 

 and truncated, brilliant bluish-green with a paler bar at the tip. Tail 

 when erect folded in some degree like that of a hen; the middle 



