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Plate XXXVI, fig. 4] are comparable neither with the buffy markings of the juvenile 
plumage nor the unbroken design of the adult pigmentation. The coverts, however, 
as we have seen, retain in the adult a terminal band of black. As far as I know, there 
is no specimen of the chick in down nor of early complete juvenile plumage extant 
in collections, and only two or three immature males in any museum. 
EARLY HISTORY 
When Gould, in 1860, published Vol. VII. of his “ Birds of Asia,” he was able to 
figure the male of this species from a specimen which Sir Robert Schomburgk, British 
Consul-General for Siam, procured alive from a small collection of animals kept at 
a Wat or Siamese temple. Gould added as the supposed female a figure drawn by 
Mr. Crawford from a bird obtained at Ava, Burma. This is undoubtedly a very poor 
representative of a young male or female of some form of Gennaeus hybrid. The 
elongated tail-feathers of the male are wrongly represented as turning outward like 
those of a black cock, instead of closely opposed and sweeping gracefully around and 
downward. Elliot's plate of the male bird, while correcting this error, is totally wrong 
as representing these feathers as short and but little curved. The female is recognizable, 
but has the neck pale buff, not chestnut, and much of the mantle barred instead 
of plain. 
SYNONYMY 
Euplocomus diardi Temm. MSS., Bonap. C. R., XLIII. 1856, p. 415; Gray, Hand-list of Birds, II. 1870, 
. 260. 
c Diardigallus praelatus Bonap. C. R., XLIII. 1856, p. 415; Schl., Hand-l. Dierk, I., p. 379, Atlas Aves, 
1857, pl. V. fig. §5 ; Gould, B. Asia, VII. 1860, pl. 21 [male only]. 
Gallus diardi Temm. MS., Schl., Hand-l. d. Dierk, I. 1857, p. 379, Atlas Aves, pl. V. fig. 55. 
Diardigallus fasctolatus Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. B., XX VII. 1858, p. 280. 
Diardigallus crawfurdi Schomb., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 250. 
Euplocamus crawfurdi Sciat., List of Phas, 1863, p. 6. 
Euplocamus praelatus Sclat., List of Phas. 1863, p. 6, pl. 6 [Siam, Shan States]; Schomb., Ibis, 1864, p. 259 
[E. Lao Country]; Sclat. & Wolf, Zool. Sket. 2, 1867, pl. 35 ; Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus. 1867, p. 34; Elliot, 
Mon. Phas., II. 1872, pl. 24; Mitchell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1911, p. 522. 
Lophura diardi Grant, Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds, XXII. 1893, p. 290; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 1895, 
p. 247; Nehrkorn, Kat. der Eiersammlung, 1899, p. 193; Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svensk, Hand-l. 50, No. 8, 1913, 
p. 67; Gyldenstolpe, Jour. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, I. 1915, p. 235; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XXVI. 
p. 75 [desc. and habits]. 
Diardigallus diardi Sharpe, Hand-list of Birds, I. 1899, p. 35. 
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