93 



vii, p. 425; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 316; id. in Hume's A T . # E. 

 2nded. iii,p. 416. 

 Nycthemerus lineatus, Blyth fy Wald. Birds Burm. p. 149. 



Arrakan race intermediate between G. lineatus and G. horsfieldi. 



Lophophorus cuvieri, Temm. PL Col v, pi. 10 [no. 1] (1820) ; Blyth, 



Ibis, 1867, p. 153 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 166, note. 

 Enplocamus cuvieri, Oates, 8. F. iii, p. 343 ; Hume fy Marsh. Game 



B. i, p. 201, pi. ; Hume, Cat. no. 811 bis; Sanderson, S. F. viii, 



p. 493; Oaten, B. B. ii, p. 318. 

 Gennaeus cuvieri (G. horsfieldi. subsp.), Ogilvie Grant. Cat. B. M. 



xxii, p. 303. 

 Gennaeus oatesi (subsp.), Of/ilvie Grant, t. c. p. 306. 



Yit, Kayit, Burin. ; Rak, Arrakan ; Synklouk, Talain ; Phuyyk, Karen. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, and crest black, glossed 

 with steely purple or green, remainder of upper surface finely 

 vermiculated with alternating black and white lines, more or 

 less transversely to the feathers, quills and tail-feathers similarly 

 but more coarsely marked ; inner webs and tips of middle pair of 

 tail-feathers entirely white ; lower parts black, with a slight purple 

 gloss on the throat, breast, and flanks ; feathers of sides of breast 

 and flanks, and sometimes the whole breast, with white shaft- 

 stripes, broader and fusiform and mottled with black at the 

 sides. 



Female. Above, including the crest, brown, all the feathers 

 minutely stippled and vermiculated with yellow- buff ; the fore- 

 head, supercilia, ear-coverts, cheeks, and sometimes the wing- 

 coverts, with white shaft-stripes, which become y-sh^ped or arrow- 

 head-shaped white marks on the back and sides of the neck and 

 upper back ; quills brown, with buff vermiculation on the outer 

 webs ; outer tail-feathers blackish, with narrow wavy white cross- 

 bars, some chestnut or brown marks in the middle of each black 

 interspace, the two or three middle pairs brownish buff, streaked 

 and mottled with rufous brown, inner webs and tips of middle 

 pair entirely buff ; chin and throat whitish ; rest of lower parts 

 brownish rufous, with lanceolate white shaft-streaks. 



Bill greenish horny, dusky at the base ; irides reddish brown ; 

 sides of head crimson ; legs plumbeous brown to pinkish fleshy. 



Length of males 25*5 to 30; tail about 12; wing 10; tarsus 

 3-2 ; bill from gape 1/35. Length of females about 23 ; tail 9 ; 

 wing 9'2o. 



Distribution. Throughout the greater part of Burma except 

 Southern Tenasserirn, also in N.W. Siam. 



Varieties. G. cuvieri is found in the Arrakan ranges and in Pegu 

 \vest of the Irrawaddy. The male is black with deep violet gloss, 

 the upper parts sparingly and minutely speckled and vermiculated 

 with white, the black greatly predominating ; lower back and rump 

 with broad white bars ; the white speckling appears to be wanting 

 on the outer tail-feathers. 



The female resembles that of G. horsfieldi, except that the outer 



