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Sclater and Gould was that it was undoubtedly a new species to which the former gave 

 the name of castaneicaudatus. Sharpe's taxonomic intuition, however, led him to add, 

 " I must confess that the smaller size of the wattles and the plumed head induced me 

 to consider this new bird as being probably /,. bulweri in an intermediate stage, perhaps 

 in the second year." 



Subsequent specimens proved the entire, truth of this suspicion, and thus we 

 account for the only synonym which has been applied to this species — a most welcome 

 simplicity of nomenclature after such unfortunate taxonomic tangles as surround the 

 specific identity of the species of Lophura I 



SYNONYMY 



Lobiophasis bulweri Sharpe, Ann. Mag. Nat. His., [4] XIV. 1874, p. 373 [Lawas Mts., Sarawak]; Gould, 

 Birds of Asia, VII. 1875, pi. 13; Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. 1876, p. 465, pi. XLIV. ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 267; 

 Burbridge, Gardens of the Sun, 1880, p. 61; Treacher, Ibis, 1888, p. 413 [Kinabatangan] ; Everett, List Birds 

 Borneo, 1889, p. 198 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 422 [Mount Dulit] ; Grant, Cat. Game-birds Brit. Mus. 1893, p. 292 ; 

 Hose, Geogr. Jour. 1893, I., p. 201; Hose, Ibis, 1893, p. 442; Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, p. 548 [Mount Kalulong] ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1894, p. 544 [Mount Mulu, 1000-2000 ft.]; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 1895, p. 249; Sharpe, 

 Hand-list Birds, I. 1899, p. 35 ; Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Museum, XXI. 1900, p. 271 [Mount Liang Koeboeng] ; 

 Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus., I. 1901, p. 53, pi. V., fig. 2; Finsch, Notes Leyden Museum, XXVI. 1905, p. 142 

 [Upper Mahakam, Dutch Borneo]; Beebe, Zoologica, I., No. 15, 1914, p. 273 [sequence of plumages]. 



Lobiophasis castaneicaudatus Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 94 [Lawas River]; Gould, Birds of Asia, 

 VII. 1877, pl« 12; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 267. 



