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brownish ; in the female, the upper mandible is dark horny 

 brown, the lower horny white ; the irides clear pale red ; facial 

 skin smalt blue, bright in the male, rather duller in the female. 



The Plate does not show the legs of the male as the bright 

 vermilion red they really are. 



The female is not quite the colour she is represented, but more 

 of a chestnut. 



The name is misspelt. 



The GENUS Euplocamus contains many species ; all, I 

 believe, belonging to the hilly regions of Northern and Eastern 

 India, Burmah, Malayana (including Borneo and Sumatra), 

 Siam, China, and the countries intervening between these 

 two latter. 



This genus has been divided into several sub-genera, which I 

 have not adopted. Roughly, they may all be classed as — 



(i.) — Kalij ; of which only four species are known, all of 

 which have been dealt with above. 



(2.) — Silver Pheasants ; of which also four are known. 

 Three of these, the Aracan, the Vermicellated, and Crawford's 

 Pheasant have been treated of already ; the fourth is the well- 

 known Silver Pheasant of China. 



(3.) — The Firebacks ; of which six or seven species are 

 known ; three or four of much the same type as vieilloti, e.g., 

 prcelatus from Siam, nobilis from Borneo, and swinhoi from 

 Formosa, and two of a somewhat different type, with short, 

 square, hen-like tails in both sexes, viz., erythrophthalmits from 

 the Malayan Peninsula and Sumatra, and pyronotus of Borneo. 



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