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large white patch on the rump, identified as Lophophorus 

 impeyamis Bonn. ; L'Hnys'' Monaul from Thibet and West 

 China, with a metallic greeu-blue tail, coppery bronze neck 

 and interscapuliuni, and a white rump the lower feathers of 

 wbich are tipped with blue, L. I'huysii Verr. & G. St.-Hil. ; 

 and, lastly., Sclater's Monaul from the Mishmi Hills, Assam, 

 which has a fiery neck, green-blue interscapuliura, a rufous 

 tail broadly tipped with white, and a white rump, L. sclateri 

 Jerd. 



In 1884 Colonel Marshall described as new a Monaul 

 from the Chamba Valley, Kashmir, under the name of 

 Lophophorus chambanus. The chief differences from L. im- 

 peyamis auct. were the metallic blue-green, not black, breast, 

 and the total absence of white on the rump. As, however, 

 the amount of green on the breast of the three specimens 

 varied much, and moreover Colonel Marshall procured true 

 black-breasted, white-rumped Monauls in the Chamba 

 Valley, he ought to have hesitated before describing it. 



In 1893 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, in the twenty-second volume 

 of the ' Catalogue of Birds,^ expresses the opinion that 

 Marshall's Lophopliorus chambanus is the true h. impejanus of 

 Latham, and the common white-rumped bird must stand as 

 L. rejulgens Temra. In the same year, Mr. E. Oustalet 

 described two skins of Monauls presented to the Paris 

 Museum by the feather-dealer Mantou under the names of 

 Lophophorvs impeyamis var. mantoui and L. impeyanus var. 

 obscurus, stating (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1893, p. 19) that 

 he considered them " local races,'' i. e. " subspecies.'' 

 Oustalet's L. i. var. mantoui differs from L. impeyanus auct. 

 =refulyens Temm. by the interscapulium being of a beautiful 

 metallic purplish bine, while his var. obscurus lias all the 

 metallic parts of the plumage sooty-black strongly washed 

 with steel-green. These two birds were obtained by 

 Mr. Mantou in London, and I at once caused all the 

 consignments of Monaul skins sent to London during the 

 next few years to be regularly searched for abnormal speci- 

 mens. Ill this manner I have collected a large series (some 

 18-20 specimens) of al)normal Monaul skins, and these 



