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brown/' he wants to be informed (after describing a weTI- 

 known stage of plumage observed in the young male E. Ignitus*) 

 where the bird with " pale chestnut flanks, varied with purplish 

 black, " mentioned by Sclater, is to come from, or what stage 

 of E. vieilloti it represents. I regret very much to be obliged 

 to say that I do not know. So far as I am concerned and the 

 opinion I gave, the case stands as follows : — 



i( What I meant by saying that the immature male of the bird 

 I call E. Ignitus had the flanks " streaked with chestnut," was, 

 that in place of the pure white central line on the black flank 

 feathers seen in the adult, the immature bird had this part 

 chestnut (and I believe I was perfectly correct in so stating, 

 although in some adults a chestnut tinge on this part some- 

 times remains) — and also that the central rectrices were rufous, 

 instead of snowwhite, which they afterwards become. As to 

 this bird mentioned by Mr. Sclater with its entirely chestnut 

 flanks, varied with black, I know nothing. Mr. Sclater says he 

 lias seen specimens ; consequently they do exist ; but although 

 I believed I had examined all the specimens of the Phasianida 

 then existing in the museums of Leyden, London, Paris, &a, 

 and also the living birds in the Gardens at Amsterdam, Ant- 

 werp, Rotterdam, London, and in the Jardin d'Acclimatation 

 and Jardin des Plantes at Paris, I have no recollection of seeing 

 such a bird. Certainly, if I had, and it was a good species, 

 there was no reason why I should not have given a plate of it 

 in my work. After all may not this bird, described by Latham, 

 be an immature E. nobilis ? for he gives its habitat as Java, 

 with a question, and it might very possibly have come from 

 .Borneo. I shall take the earliest opportunity of examining one 

 of these chestnut-flanked birds, and state my opinion of it in 

 this journal.'" 



I need only remark that this virtually concedes all I con- 

 tended, viz., that Mr. Elliot was in error in figuring our present 

 species, (rujfus, Raffles ; vieilloti, Gray) under Latham's name 

 of ignitus ; this latter mag be nobilis, as now suggested by Mr. 

 Elliot, but it is not our bird. 



812.— Gallus ferrugineus, Gm. (7). 



(Tonglioo, Earennee, Rams.) Pahpoon ; Amherst ; Banknsoon ; Malewoon. 



Generally distributed throughout the province, but not ascend- 

 ing the higher hills. 



[This species was extremely abundant in the bamboo forests 

 about Pahpoon, and to the north of that place, and I have 

 found it not uncommon over the rest of the province, except 

 in the higher hills. It frequents all kinds of localities, dense 



* Lege, vieiloti : A-CMT. 



