THE ARGUS PHEASANT 



feathers ; back and wings, black, covered all over with buff 

 spots ; rump and upper tail coverts, buff with brown spots ; 

 primaries, light grey on outer webs, covered with regular 

 lines of rufous brown spots ; inner webs, very light rufous, 

 covered with black spots with rufous centres, a line next the 

 shaft, olive-brown, crossed with fine dark brown lines, then a 

 broad red band spotted minutely with white, running about 

 two-thirds the length of the feather ; shaft, orange at base 

 and deep blue for the remainder of the length ; secondaries, 

 exceedingly long, dark brown, thickly covered on the outer 

 webs next the shaft with ocellated spots, yellow in the centre 

 then olive with an outer rim of black. From these eyes to 

 the margin of the feather, run narrow blackish-brown 

 diagonal lines. Inner webs covered with round blackish- 

 brown spots, surrounded with very light brown rings ; tips 

 of secondaries, dark reddish-brown spotted with white ; the 

 shafts white ; middle tail feathers very long, greyish on 

 inner web, spotted with white, these spots surrounded with 

 black ; outer web, black next the shaft, chestnut on the 

 remaining, spotted with white with black margins. Rest of 

 feathers chestnut, covered with white spots having black 

 outer rims ; bill, horn colour. 



" Female, similar to male, but without the lengthened 

 secondaries and middle tail feathers ; her secondaries, 

 blackish, irregularly marked with buff lines ; tail feathers, 

 brown mottled with black. 



"Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra (Blyth), Siam (Mouhot), 

 Sumatra, in deep forests (Rafifles), Tenasserim River 

 (Blyth)." 



Small Argus Pheasant {Argus Grayi) 

 " Nothing whatever has been discovered concerning this 

 bird since I described it in the Ibis in 1865, and I believe 



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