WHITE-TAILED WATTLED PHEASANT 165 
Sclater and Gould was that it was undoubtedly a new species to which the former gave 
the name of castaneicaudatus. Sharpe’s taxonomic intuition, however, led him to add, 
“I must confess that the smaller size of the wattles and the plumed head induced me 
to consider this new bird as being probably Z. du/werz in an intermediate stage, perhaps 
in the second year.” 
Subsequent specimens proved the entire truth of this suspicion, and thus we 
account for the only synonym which has been applied to this species—a most welcome 
simplicity of nomenclature after such unfortunate taxonomic tangles as surround the 
specific identity of the species of Lophura ! 
SYNONYMY 
Lobiophasis bulwert Sharpe, Ann. Mag. Nat. His., [4] XIV. 1874, p. 373 [Lawas Mts., Sarawak]; Gould, 
Birds of Asia, VII. 1875, pl. 13; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 465, pl. XLIV.; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 267; 
Burbridge, Gardens of the Sun, 1880, p. 61; Treacher, Ibis, 1888, p. 413 [Kinabatangan]; Everett, List Birds 
Borneo, 1889, p. 198; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 422 [Mount Dulit]; Grant, Cat. Game-birds Brit. Mus. 1893, p. 292; 
Hose, Geogr. Jour. 1893, I., p. 201; Hose, Ibis, 1893, p. 442; Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, p. 548 [Mount Kalulong]; 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1894, p. 544 [Mount Mulu, 1000-2000 ft.]; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 1895, p. 249; Sharpe, 
Hand-list Birds, I. 1899, p. 35 ; Biittikofer, Notes Leyden Museum, X XI. 1900, p. 271 [Mount Liang Koeboeng]; 
Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus., I. 1901, p. 53, pl. V., fig. 2; Finsch, Notes Leyden Museum, XXVI. 1905, p. 142 
[Upper Mahakam, Dutch Borneo]; Beebe, Zoologica, I., No. 15, 1914, p. 273 [sequence of plumages]. 
Lobiophasts castaneicaudatus Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 94 [Lawas River]; Gould, Birds of Asia, 
VII. 1877, pl. 12; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 267. 
