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Genus LOPHOPHORUS, Temm. 

 Lophophorus impeyanus (Lath.}, 



Satyra impayana, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 52, tab. xii. fig. 3 



(1845-54). 

 Lopjiophorus impeyanus, Mitchell, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 544, Aves, pi. cxlix. 



fig. 5 ; Hrnne $ Marsh. Game Birds 2nd. i. p. 125 (1879) ; Oates ed. 



Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 407 (1890) ; Oates, Game Birds 



Ind. i. p. 262 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-L i. p. 33 (1899). 

 Lophophorus refulgens, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 278 (1893). 



The eggs of the Monal Pheasant are of a regular oval shape and 

 they possess a fair amount of gloss. They are of a cream-colour or 

 buffy white, thickly freckled and marked all over with very dark 

 reddish brown. On many specimens the markings are larger and 

 more frequent on the central portion of the shell than elsewhere. 

 They measure from 2*4 to 2*7 in length, and from 1*7 to 1*9 in 

 breadth. 



The eggs of this species cannot be separated with any certainty 

 from those of Meleagris gallopavo (p. 64). 



2. Himalayas. Gould Coll. 



6. Himalayas. Hume Coll. 



2. N.W. Himalayas, 19th June. Hume Coll. 



3. Hazara, May. Hume Coll. 

 2. Sookee, 9500 feet, 1st June. Hume Coll. 

 ] . Jallah, 8500 feet, 23rd May. Hume Coll. 

 1. Mussoorie. Hume Coll. 



4. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



dens, London). 



Genus LOPHURA, Fleming. 



Lophura rufa (Eaffl.}. 

 (Plate Y. fig. 3.) 



Euplocamus vieilloti, Hume fy Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. 213 (1879). 

 Lophura rufa, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 286 (1893) ; Oates, Game 

 Birds Ind. i. p. 379 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-L i. p. 34 (1899). 



The egg of the Malayan Crested, or Vieillot's, Fire-back Pheasant 

 in the Collection is of a regular oval form, fairly glossy and of a 

 pale creamy-buff colour. It measures 2-2 by 1*6. 



1. Laid in confinement at Singapore, Hume Coll. 

 July. 



Lophura nobilis (Sclater). 

 (Plate V. fig. 1.) 



Euplocamus ignitus, Skarpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 270. 



Lophura ignita, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 288 (1893). 



Lophura nobilis, Sharpe, Hand-L i. p. 34 (1899). 



The eggs of the Bo mean Crested Fire-back Pheasant are of a very 

 rounded oval form. They are of a pale cream-colour and measure 

 from 1-95 to 2-15 in length, and from 1-5 to 1*65 in breadth. 



