158 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 
The Red Jungle Fowl is generally distributed over the whole country where it is 
quite common in every kind of jungles. 
Among the mountains on the boundary between Siam and Tenasserim it was ex- 
ceedingly common and numbers of specimens were shot for the kitchen. Their flesh 
forms an excellent eating and is highly appreciated even by the natives. 
351. Polyplectrum malaccensis. Scop. — The Malay Peacock Pheasant. 
Polyplectrum chinquis: Gairdner p. 151. 
Polyplectron bicalcaratus: Miller p. 432; Gyldenstolpe I p. 66. 
© Koon Tan 1914. W = 182 mm.; T = 225 mm.; C = 21 mm.; Tarsus = 56 mm. 
Peacock-Pheasants were fairly rare in the parts of the country visited by the Ex- 
pedition. As they are extremely shy and very seldom take to their wings, only running 
about among the dense undergrowth, they are seldom shot or seen by European sports- 
men. The best way to get them is by using snares which are also used by the natives, 
not only for catching Pheasants but for every kind of game-birds living on the 
ground. 
During my whole journey in Siam I myself neither saw nor was able to shoot a 
Peacock Pheasant, and the female specimen, which is among the collections, I owe to 
my native collector who succeeded in shooting it among the Koon Tan Hills. 
As shown by Hartert (Novitates Zoologice, Vol. 9, 1902, p. 539) the bird formerly 
known as Polyplectrum chinquis must be the same bird which was called Pavo bicalcaratus 
by Linnavus and that was the bird which has two ocelli on each tail-feather. 
The specimen I obtained differs somewhat from the description. On the longer tail- 
coverts the ocelli are almost obsolete and only marked by dark spots. The central tail- 
feathers are also without any well-marked ocelli and they are only indicated by dark 
spots. The outer tail-feathers, however, have very well-marked ocelli on both webs. 
The ocelli on the mantle, scapulars, wing-coverts and outer secondaries are fairly large 
and of a distinct violet gloss. 
352. Argusianus argus. Linn. — The Argus Pheasant. 
Argusianus argus: Grant p. 123; Robinson I p. 87. 
The Argus Pheasant only inhabits the southern parts of the Siamese Malaya. 
When I was marching from Koh Lak up among the mountains on the boundary to 
Tenasserim I only once (on the 4th of December 1914) caught a glimpse of an Argus Pheas- 
ant which was flushed up from the path but unfortunately I missed it. At no other 
occasions did I meet with this beautiful species during my travels in Siam. 
In the Siamese Malaya it is called »Nok eh wali» by the natives. 
