86 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



The back, rump and tail-coverts are coarsely spotted with pale buffy grey. Twin 

 ocelli appear first on the median tail-coverts, those on the lateral feathers being violet, 

 becoming more and more green as they approach the central pairs. Both these and the 

 ocelli on the rectrices divide the feather into two unequal parts, the distal portion of 

 which shows coarse white spotting like the back and rump ; above and posterior to the 

 ocelli the feather is more or less indistinctly mottled with buff. All the caudal ocelli are 

 much more green than in germaini, and those on the rectrices themselves are brilliant 

 golden green when looked at away from the light. The chin, throat, lower face and side- 

 neck are white, while the bare facial area is bordered both above and below by a broad 

 line of white feathers, showing black at their bases. The ventral surface is brownish 

 black with numerous irregular broken bands and spots of pale buff. 



Iris, lavender grey ; bill slate black ; feet plumbeous ; claws slaty black. The four 

 spurs are 8 to 1 1 mm. in length. Bill from nostril, 1 1 mm. ; wing, 200 ; tail, 285 ; 

 tarsus, 65 ; middle toe and claw, 48 mm. 



Adult Female. — Forehead, crown and nape brown with a white shaft-streak, and 

 tipped with black. On the mantle olive cross-bars appear, and the white becomes 

 concentrated into a central sub-terminal spot. On the lower mantle and wing-coverts 

 the white becomes a conspicuous white transverse band in a broad black area, the tip of 

 the feather with an irregular border of buffy white streaks, while the rest of the feather 

 shows broad, broken, buff and olive bands. 



Sometimes none, sometimes almost all the mantle and wing feathers have a rounded 

 distal extension of the black area with considerable bluish and violet iridescence in the 

 centre. The back and rump are irregularly marked with vermiculations of olive and 

 grey on black, with occasional large spots of white. 



The longest tail-coverts either lack the twin ocelli or have them very imperfectly 

 developed, while they are well developed on the rectrices. All the rectrices show rather 

 regular barring. Chin and throat white. Under-parts brownish black, quite regularly 

 barred with olive buff. 



There is no hint of the pointed ocelli, as in the female of germaini, and the upper 

 parts throughout are not so grey, but more buffy than in germaini, and not so 

 evenly marked. 



Bill from nostril, 10 mm.; wing, 165; tail, 170; tarsus, 53; middle toe and 

 claw, 40 mm. 



Juvenile Male Plumage. — Top of the head plain dark brown. Nape feathers 

 with a very faint, terminal, pale buff spot. Mantle with a light buff central area in a 

 dark zone, with a broad rufous border, the light spot becoming pale rufous on the 

 secondaries and coverts. The secondaries lack the pseudo-ocellus area, and are dark 

 brown, vermiculated with pale buff, which becomes rufous toward the tip. Primaries 

 with a wide margin of buff mottling. Back and rump vermiculated with olive buff and 

 with a small but conspicuous terminal shaft-spot of white. Rectrices, long, narrow and 

 pointed, dark brown, with numerous mottled half-bars, especially on the outer webs, of 

 rufous buff, as many as twenty on the central, and six or seven on the outer pairs. 

 There are ten pairs of tail-feathers. 



