96 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



and pattern hardly to be distinguished from the fully adult male, before a noticeable 

 change takes place in the remainder of the plumage. This rectrice moult, however, more 

 often results in eleven than in twelve pairs of feathers. The white facial featherlets are 

 rapidly replaced by black ones, and the adult plumage supersedes the brown, female-like 

 body feathering. Months before this, however, any stray feathers which are tweaked 

 out, are replaced by parti-coloured, brown and green ones. Or if a first-year crest 

 feather be lost before the time of regular moult, the ingrowing feather will be normally 

 vaned at the tip, giving place basally to the disintegrated, glistening green filaments of 

 the crest of the adult pheasant. 



SYNONYMY 



Polyplectron napoleonis Lesson, Traits d'Orn. 1831, pp. 487, 650; id. Comp. de Buff. VII. 1836, p. 323; 

 Gray, Gen. B. III. 1845, P- 495 ! id. List Gallinae Brit. Mus. 1867, p. 25 ; Tweedd. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 792; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 203 ; Blasius, Ornis, 1888, p. 317 [Palawan] ; Everett, List B. Born. 1889, p. 198 [Palawan]; 

 Whitehead, Ibis, 1890, p. 57 [Palawan, habits]; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXII. 1893, p. 361 ; Bourns and 

 Worcester, Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers, I. No. I. 1894, p. 43; Grant, Hand-book to Game-birds, II. 1897, 

 p. (>6\ Hartert, Novitates Zoologicae, IX. 1902, p. 539. 



Polyplectron emphanum Temminck, PI. Col. V. 1831, pi. 18 [no. 540] ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. IV. 1834, p. 159, 

 pi. 5 ; Gray, Hand-list of Birds, 1870, p. 257 ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. I. 1872, pi. 9 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 1874, p. 304 ; 

 Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) VI. 1882, p. 259 [Luzon]. 



Emphania napoleonis Bonap. C. R. XLII. 1856, p. 878. 



Polyplectron emphanes Sclater, List of Phas. 1863, p. 12; Sclater, Ibis, 1878, p. 386; Tweedd. Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1878, p. 623 [P. Princesa, Palawan]. 



Polyplectron nehrkornae Blasius, Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1891, p. i [Palawan]; id. Jour. f. Orn. 1891, p. 10; 

 Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXII. 1893, p. 360. 



