128 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 
As to the change of colour without moulting which some authors describe at this 
age of the Crested Fireback, I can find not the least confirmation in the examination 
of museum skins, and in the case of the Bornean Crested Fireback, which I have bred 
under careful observation, I have discovered nothing except proof that the change in 
pigmentation, iridescence or pattern takes place by moult and renewal alone, except as 
I have stated before, where excessive wear destroys the high metallic gloss. 
IMMATURE FEMALE.—Two immature females show the nape heavily edged with 
black, and the mantle edged and mottled with more or less solid black pigment. The 
banding is especially noticeable on the middle wing-coverts, and the secondaries are 
very heavily mottled with the same colour, On the. lower parts, the black almost 
obscures the rufous of the breast. 
SYNONYMY 
Phastanus ignitus Raffles (nec Shaw and Nodder), Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII. 1822, p. 320 (Sumatra) ; 
Daniell, F.Z.S., 1882, p. 24; Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 412. 
Phasianus rufus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII, 1822, p. 321 (Sumatra); Gray, in Griffiths ed. Cuv., III. 
1820, p. 28. 
Phasianus castaneus Gray, in Griffiths ed. Cuv., III. 1829, p. 28 (Penang). 
Gallus macartneys Schinz (nec Temm.). Nat. abild. Vog., 1833, p. 28, pl. 93 (Sumatra). 
Euplocamus ignitus Gray, Ul. Ind. Zool., I. 1834, pl. 39; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc., 1849, p. 243 (Sumatra) ; 
Blyth and Wald., Cat. Mamm. and Birds, Burma, 1875, p. 149 (Tenasserim River); Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 124. 
Euplocamus vieillotti Gray, List Gen. E. 2nd ed., 1841, p. 77; Gould, Birds Asia, VII. 1852, pl. 15 (Malacca); 
Hume, Stray Feathers, II. 1874, p. 481 (Tennasserim) ; Hume, Stray Feathers, III. 1875, p. 324 (Tennasserim) ; 
Hume and Marsh, Game-birds India, I. 1878, p. 213; Hume and Dav., Stray Feathers, p. 438 (Pakjan) ; Elliot, 
Ibis, 1878, p. 413; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 532 (Perak) ; Oates, Birds of Burma, II. 1883, p. 320 (L. Tennasserim). 
Euplocamus rufus Hume, Stray Feathers, V. 1877, p. 121. 
Euplocamus sumatranus Dubois, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2), XLVII. 1879, p. 825 (Sumatra). 
Lophura rufa Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 268 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Man. Game-birds, I. 
1895, p. 244; Blanf., Fauna Brit. India, IV. 1898, p. 87; Oates, Man. Game-birds, I. 1898, p. 379 ; Sharpe, Hand- 
list Birds, I. 1899, p. 34; Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus., I. 1901, p. 52; Robinson, Jour. Fed. Malay St. Mus., I. 
1906, p. 129; Robinson, Jour. Fed. Malay St. Mus., ILI. 1906, p. 56 (Pahang) ; Robinson, Jour, Fed. Malay St. 
Mus., V. 1913, p. 16; Stuart-Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., XXVI. No. I. 1918, p. 10. 
