SIAMESE CRESTED FIREBACK 121 



Plate XXXVI, fig. 4] are comparable neither with the buffy markings of the juvenile 

 plumage nor the unbroken design of the adult pigmentation. The coverts, however, 

 as we have seen, retain in the adult a terminal band of black. As far as I know, there 

 is no specimen of the chick in down nor of early complete juvenile plumage extant 

 in collections, and only two or three immature males in any museum. 



EARLY HISTORY 



When Gould, in i860, published Vol. VII. of his '' Birds of Asia," he was able to 

 figure the male of this species from a specimen which Sir Robert Schomburgk, British 

 Consul-General for Siam, procured alive from a small collection of animals kept at 

 a Wat or Siamese temple. Gould added as the supposed female a figure drawn by 

 Mr. Crawford from a bird obtained at Ava, Burma. This is undoubtedly a very poor 

 representative of a young male or female of some form of Gennaeus hybrid. The 

 elongated tail-feathers of the male are wrongly represented as turning outward like 

 those of a black cock, instead of closely opposed and sweeping gracefully around and 

 downward. Elliot's plate of the male bird, while correcting this error, is totally wrong 

 as representing these feathers as short and but little curved. The female is recognizable, 

 but has the neck pale buff, not chestnut, and much of the mantle barred instead 

 of plain. 



SYNONYMY 



Euplocomus diardi Temm. MSS., Bonap. C. R., XLIII. 1856, p. 415; Gray, Hand-list of Birds, II. 1870, 

 p. 260. 



DiardigcUlus praelatus Bonap. C. R., XLIII. 1856, p, 415; Schl, Hand-1. Dierk, I., p. 379, Atlas Aves, 

 1857, pi. V. fig. 55 ; Gould, B. Asia, VII. i860, pi. 21 [male only]. 



Gallus diardi Temm. MS., Schl., Hand-1. d. Dierk, I. 1857, p. 379, Atlas Aves, pi. V. fig. 55. 



Diardigallus fasciolatus Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. B., XXVII. 1858, p. 280. 



Diardigallus crawfurdi Schomb., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 250. 



Euplocamus crawfurdi Sclat., List of Phas. 1863, p. 6. 



Euplocamus praelatus Sclat., List of Phas. 1863, p. 6, pi. 6 [Siam, Shan States] ; Schomb., Ibis, 1864, p. 259 

 [E. Lao Country]; Sclat. & Wolf, Zool. Sket. 2, 1867, pi. 35 ; Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus. 1867, p. 34; Elliot, 

 Mon. Phas., II. 1872, pi. 24; Mitchell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 191 1, p. 522. 



Lophura diardi Grant, Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds, XXII. 1893, p. 290; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 1895, 

 p. 247; Nehrkorn, Kat. der Eiersammlung, 1899, p. 193; Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svensk, Hand-l, 50, No. 8, 1913, 

 p. 67; Gyldenstolpe, Jour. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, I. 191 5, p. 235 ; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XXVI. 

 p. 75 [desc. and habits]. 



Diardigallus diardi Sharpe, Hand-list of Birds, I. 1899, p. 35. 



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