2i8 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



Iris orange or orange-brown, orbital skin crimson-lake, a narrow ring round the eye 

 greenish, a lemon-yellow square spot at the posterior angle of the eye, bill greenish-horn, 

 feet pale greenish-slate. Wing, 208-228 mm. ; tail, 145-150 ; tarsus, 65-69. 



Three specimens measured. 



SYNONYMY 



Aconius inornatus Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv, p. 250 (1879) ; id. P.Z.S. 1879, p. 651, pi. xlviii. [Mt. 

 Singalan, w. coast of Sumatra] ; Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., ix, p. TJ (1887) [Padang, W. Sumatra] ; Vorderman, 

 Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind., xlix, p. 413, no. 424 (1889) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M., xxii, p. 285 (1893) ; Robinson 

 and KIoss, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. viii, p. lOi, pi. iv (1918) [Kornichi Peak, Sumatra]. 



