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 3. Physignathus lesueuri (Gray). 



Lophura lesueurii, Gray, Griff. An. Kingd. IX, Syn. 1831, p. 60. 

 Physignathus lesueurii^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 398 (s. syn.). 



Snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit. Nostril 

 nearer the tip of the snout than the orbit; canthus rostralis, 



Fig- 57- Physignathus lesueuri (Gray). 



supraciliary and supraorbital borders forming a ridge; cheeks 

 swollen; tympanum half the diameter of the orbit. Head 

 covered with small, strongly keeled scales; on the occiput and 

 temples some conical and compressed tubercles; gular scales 

 feebly keeled, with irregular longitudinal series of enlarged 

 tubercles on each side; parallel with the lower labials, a series 



Fig. 58. Physignathus lesueuri (Gray). Femoral pores. Nat. size. 



of large scales. Body compressed; a nuchal crest of a few 

 triangular spines, implanted on a fold of the skin; dorsal crest 

 much lower. Dorsal scales small, granular, keeled, with irregular 

 transverse series of larger, round, keeled tubercles. Ventral 

 scales keeled, larger than dorsals; sixteen to twenty-two femoral 

 pores on each side (fig. 58). Tail strongly compressed, crested 

 like the back, two times and a half as long as the body; 



