120 DR. p. L, SCLATER ON THE [April 21, 



S . Niger, alis griseo undulatis : dorso imo igneo : cauda fulva : 



ocu/orum ambitu nudo rubra. 

 5 . Purpurea niger, unicolor. 

 Hab. Sumatra {Raffles) ; common in collections from Malacca. 



1 am inclined to believe that Raffles is right in his description of 

 the female of this bird — that sex having been considered by some 

 authors as a distinct species, and named in Gray's ' Indian Zoology ' 

 Phasianus 'purpureus. A male example of this species was obtained 

 at Malacca by Mr. Wallace. 



7. EuPLOCAMus PYRONOTus (Bomean Rufous-tailed Pheasant.) 

 Euplocamus erythrophthahnus, J. E. Gray, Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 39. 



Alectrophasis pyranota, G. R. Gray, List of Gallinse, p. 26. 

 Euplacamus personatus, Temm. in Mus. Lugdun. 



(S . Niger : dorso imo ig?ieo : cauda fulva : corpore subtus albo 

 longitudinaliter lineato. 



2 ■ Purpureo-niger, unicolor. 

 Hab. Borneo {Mus. Brit.). 



Easily distinguished from E. erythrophthalmus by the white medial 

 shaft-lines of the plumage below. The female specimen in the British 

 Museum appears very like the female of the preceding species. Two 

 examples, males, one of which was obtained near Sarawak, are in 

 Mr. Wallace's collection. The naked space round the eye is marked 

 red. 



Sect. D. Gennceus, Wagler. 



8. Euplocamus nychthemerus. (Silver Pheasant.) 



Phasianus nycthemerus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 2/2. 



GenncBus nycthemerus, Gould, B. Asia, pt. xi. 



Nycthemerus argentatus, Sw. Class, ii. p. 34. 



Hab. Southern China. " Has been shot in the vicinity of Amoy ; 

 inhabits the wooded hills of the interior of Southern China " 

 {Swinhoe). 



Sect. E. Gallophasis. 



9. Euplocamus lineatus. (Lineated Pheasant.) 



Lineated Pheasant, Latham, G. H. viii. p. 221. 



Phasianus lineatus. Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 24. 



Phasianus reynaudi. Lesson, in Belanger's Voy. Zool. pis. 8, 9. 



Phasianus fasciatus, M'^Clelland, Calcutta Journ. vol. ii. p. 146. 



Hab. Tenasserim and Pegu, replacing the following species, E. 

 horsfeldi, which is connected with the present by a series of inter- 

 mediate forms found in Arracan. (See Blyth, Cat. Mus. A. S. B. 

 p. 244.) 



N.B. Temniinck's Lophophorus cuvieri seems to have been esta- 

 blished upon one of these intermediate forms. (See Blyth, /. c.) 



