1918. | H. C. Ropinson & C. B. Kross: Birds. 101 
Though both Klaesi and the Mid-Sumatran Expedition 
seem to have come across this bird in the Padang Highlands 
we did not meet with it in the Korinchi country and it is said 
not to occur there. In the Malay Peninsula it is found at over 
4,000 feet. Inthe coastal lands it was very abundant and is 
largely trapped for food. 
3. Acomus inornatus, Salvad. (Pl. IV.) 
Acomus tnornatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Ciy. Gen. xiv, p. 250 
(1870)-0id-PaZ.S. 1879, p. 651, pl. xlvinsy Buttikofer, Notes 
Leyden Mus. 1x, p. 77 (1887); Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. 
Ind. xlix, p. 413, no. 424 (1889); Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xxii, p. 285 (1893). 
at. 7 6,2 %. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, Suma- 
tra, 4,700 feet. z2oth March-17th May, 1914. 
Nos-5501) 507; 690, 7uGye719,.-790,. 1588, 
1613-4.] 
jem. 24,2 %. Korinchi Peak, Sumatra, 7,300 feet. 
24-26th April, 1914. [Nos. 1100, 1154, 1163, 
EZ | 
n.—0. I 6, 1%. Barong Bharu, Barisan Range, 
West Sumatra, Lat. 2°S. 4,000 feet. 5-6th 
June, 1914. [Nos. 1972, 1974.] 
“Male, irides red or orange, orbital skin crimson lake, 
greenish immediately around the eye, bill greenish horn, feet 
whitish slate tinged with green.” 
‘“Female, irides orange or orange brown, orbital skin 
crimson, a narrow ring round the eye greenish, alemon yellow 
square spot at posterior angle of the eye, bill greenish horn, 
feet pale greenish slate.” 
At Sungei Kumbang and throughout the flat land to the 
foot of the actual peak and for some distance up it, this phea- 
sant was fairly common, being found usually in pairs. It was 
very shy and ran with great rapidity through the undergrowth 
at the least alarm, the females, according to our Dyaks, being 
much warier and harder to obtain than the male. The ac- 
quisition of this sex which, not having been hitherto obtained, 
is described below, proves that Beccari and Salvadori were 
right in stating that the female is a reddish brown bird and 
that Ogilvie Grant (loc. cit.) was in error in considering their 
supposition to refer to the female of Lophura rufa. 
Adult female. Feathers of the head, which are somewhat 
elongated, dark chestnut obscurely barred with black. Feathers 
of the whole of the upper and lower surface except the primary 
coverts, primaries and tail feathers, buffy brown inclining to 
ochraceous on the upper surface, obscurely vermiculated with 
black, the shaft region only unmarked, each feather broadly 
edged, but not tipped with clear reddish chestnut, producing a 
streaked appearance: back and rump with the chestnut colour 
Part Il: Vertebrata. 
