1870.] A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. 333 



\\" ; tarsus %" ; round the eye and loreal space naked. The species 

 does not apparently extend into Burma. B 1 y t h quotes C. sinica, 

 Linn, and malaccensis, Gmel., as synonyms, but the charac- 

 teristics, (especially of the latter), as given by Latham, are not 

 applicable to the Malayan bird, which exactly agrees with speci- 

 mens from the Mauritius. 



Fam. PHASIANIDM. 



91. PoLYPLECTRON BICALCARATUM, Linn. 



Gould, B. Asia, pt. XXII. 



In the figure recently published by Gould the crest of the male 

 is coloured uniform greenish. This would appear to be very un- 

 usual, at least as far as summer plumage is concerned. I had seen 

 about 20 specimens with the dealers at Malacca and, as far as I 

 remember, all had the frontal feathers barred across with dusky 

 white, but the feathers on the crest of the female are generally 

 uniform brown, with rather indistinct edgings of dark brown. 



This species also occurs in the interior of Wellesley Province, but 

 seems to be already here very rare. 



92. Galltjs ferruginetts, Gmel. 



The more red and deeper coloured Malayan variety, * lately 

 noticed by Bly th (in the Ibis), occurs in the Wellesley Province ; 

 wing of cock 9£" ; outer tail feathers barely 12." 



93. Rollttltts cristatus, Gmel. 

 Blyth, Cat. 253. 



More common about Malacca than in the Wellesley Province and 

 in Tenasserim. All the birds are perfectly identical. 



Fam. TINAMIID^E. 



95. Turnix pugnax,] Temm. 



Blyth (Ibis, 1867, III, p. 161) says that T. occellata, Scop, 

 apud Jerdon (B. Ind. II, p. 597) should stand as T. pugnax 

 of Temminck, occellata, Scop. (= luzoniensis, G m.) being 

 quite a distinct species, and that both pugnax and taigoor are 



* Only the posterior neck is golden yellow. 



t Tei/rao Luzoniensis of R a f f 1 e s from Sumatra is, to all appearance, the same 

 bird. Temminck's figure represents an unusually dark specimen. 



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