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are smaller and less brilliant ; under tail coverts mottled brown and 

 bnff, the former in broad bars ; cliin and throat pale biiffy brown. 



Measurements.— WnoLg 6-8" (164-7 mm.) to 7-5" (180-3 mm.^; tail 

 G" (lo2-4 mm.) to 9" (228-6 mm.). 



Colours of soft parts. — Iris grej' or grey brown ; facial skm diJl 

 livid or fleshy red ; legs and feet dull plumbeous or greenish black ; 

 bill horn}'' brown, darker on tip and cnlmen. 



Distribution. — Malay Peninsular and Sumatra, extending into the 

 extreme south of Tenasserim whence I have received the skin of a 

 female taken on its eggs. Count Gyldenstolpe records it as being 

 common in parts of Northern Siam. 



Nidification. — There appears to be absolutely nothing known 

 about the nidification of this pheasant though a few eggs have been 

 laid by birds in captivity. A single egg sent to me by my collec- 

 tors from TenaP)Serim together with the female was taken on the 3rd 

 March, and was one of a pair which were then already hard set. 

 One was broken in transit and the other arrived safel}". This 

 agrees in every way with my eggs of the Grey Peacock-Pheasant 

 and measures 1-8" (47-7 mm.) by 1-45" (36-8 mm.). 



In colour it is a warm pink cafe-au-lait with innumerable freckles 

 of white all over it. 



It was said to have been laid on a nest consisting of a small pile 

 of rubbish lying in dense undergrowth in evergreen forest. 



A second egg in my collection given to me hj Herr M. Kuschel 

 and laid in captivity in Berlin measures 1-95" x 1-66" (49-5 x 42-1 

 mm.) and is, I should imagine, an abnormally large egg. It is a 

 pale yellow cream and has none of the usual white stippling. 



Habits. — In habits the Malay Peacock-Pheasant does not seem to 

 differ from the common Indian bird. Count Gyldenstolpe records 

 it as common in Northern Siam, especially in the evergreen forests 

 sirrrounding the Mek Lem River. As usual, however, the birds 

 w^ere so shy and retiring that he failed to shoot a specimen, though 

 he saw some skins of specimens which had been shot by a European. 



They keep much to the lower hills and the plains at their feet, 

 but are found up to 4,000 feet. 



POLYPLECTRON GERMAINI, 



Germain'' s PeacocJc-Pheasant. 



Polyplectron qermaini. — Elliot, Ibis, 1866, p. 56; id, Mon. Phas., 

 I., pi." 8 (1872); Hume, Str. Feath., VII., p. 426 (1878) ; Hume 

 and Marsh., Game B., I., p. Ill (1878) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. 

 M., XXII., p. 357 (1893) ; id. Game B., II., p. 64 (1897). 



Polyplectron iniermedius . — Hume, Str. Feath., I., p. 36 (1873) ; 

 id bid., v., p. 118 (1877). 



Poll/plectrum intermedium. — Gates, Game B., I., p. 234. 



Vernacular ISamss. — Con-ga-san (Siamese). 



