Fireback-Pheasa nts. 381 



at Singapore. It is of an oval shape, 

 buffy white in colour, and measures 2*2 

 by 1-65. 



The male has the whole plumage, with 

 the crest, glossy bluish black, except the 

 lower back and the rump, which are 

 maroon chestnut. The sides of the body 

 are streaked with white. The two middle 

 pairs of tail-feathers are white ; the next 

 pair chiefly white on the inner web, black 

 on the outer ; the remainder all black. 



In the female the whole upper plumage, 

 crest, and the visible parts of the closed 

 wings are chestnut, minutely and closely 

 vermiculated with black. The tail is 

 maroon, the middle two or three pairs of 

 feathers indistinctly marked with black 

 wavy lines. The throat is white ; the 

 foreneck chestnut streaked with white ; 

 and the breast and the sides of the body 

 dark brown or black, each feather laterally 

 margined with white and tipped with 

 chestnut. The belly is black, each feather 

 margined with white. 



Length of male about 28 ; wing about 

 ii ; tail about 10. Length of female 

 about 24; wing about 10 ; tail about 8. 

 Legs bright red ; irides pale red ; bill horny 

 to white ; facial skin blue. Weight up to 



