128 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



As to the change of colour without moulting which some authors describe at this 

 age of the Crested Fireback, I can find not the least confirmation in the examination 

 of museum skins, and in the case of the Bornean Crested Fireback, which I have bred 

 under careful observation, I have discovered nothing except proof that the change in 

 pigmentation, iridescence or pattern takes place by moult and renewal alone, except as 

 I have stated before, where excessive wear destroys the high metallic gloss. 



Immature Female. — Two immature females show the nape heavily edged with 

 black, and the mantle edged and mottled with more or less solid black pigment. The 

 banding is especially noticeable on the middle wing-coverts, and the secondaries are 

 very heavily mottled with the same colour. On the lower parts, the black almost 

 obscures the rufous of the breast. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus ignitus Raffles (nee Shaw and Nodder), Trans. Linn. Soc., XIIL 1822, p, 320 (Sumatra); 

 Daniell, F.Z.S., 1882, p. 24; Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 412. 



Phasianus riifus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIIL 1822, p. 321 (Sumatra); Gray, in Griffiths ed. Cuv., III. 

 1829, p. 28. 



Phasianus castaneus Gray, in Grififiths ed. Cuv., III. 1829, p. 28 (Penang). 



Gallus macartneys Schinz (nee Temm.). Nat. abild. Vog., 1833, p. 28, pi. 93 (Sumatra). 



Euplocanius ignitus Gray, 111. Ind. Zool., II. 1834, pi. 39 ; Blyth, Cat. Mas. As. Soc., 1849, p. 243 (Sumatra) ; 

 Blyth and Wald., Cat. Mamm. and Birds, Burma, 1875, p. 149 (Tenasserim River) ; Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 124. 



Euplocamus vieillotti Gray, List Gen. E. 2nd ed., 1841, p. yy ; Gould, Birds Asia, VII. 1852, pi. 15 (Malacca); 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, II. 1S74, p. 481 (Tennasserim) ; Hume, Stray Feathers, III. 1875, p. 324 (Tennasserim) ; 

 Hume and Marsh, Game-birds India, I. 1878, p. 213 ; Hume and Dav., Stray Feathers, p. 438 (Pakjan) ; Elliot, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 413 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 532 (Perak) ; Gates, Birds of Burma, II. 1883, p. 320 (L. Tennasserim). 



Euplocamus rufus Hume, Stray Feathers, V. 1877, p. 121. 



Euplocamus sumatranus Dubois, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2), XLVIL 1879, p. 825 (Sumatra). 



Lophura rufa Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 268 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Man. Game-birds, I. 

 1895, p. 244; Blanf., Fauna Brit. India, IV. 1898, p. 87; Gates, Man, Game-birds, I. 1898, p. 379 ; Sharpe, Hand- 

 list Birds, I. 1899, p. 34; Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus., I. 1901, p. 52; Robinson, Jour. Fed. Malay St. Mus., I. 

 1906, p. 129; Robinson, Jour. Fed. Malay St. Mus., III. 1906, p. 56 (Pahang) ; Robinson, Jour. Fed. Malay St. 

 Mus., V. 1913, p. 16; Stuart-Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXVI. No. I. 1918, p. 10. 



