VIE ILLOT’S FIRE-BACKED PHEASAKT, 
Euplocamus vieillotii. 
Plate XXXVI. 
This splendid Pheasant belongs to a small section of the same group of Phasianidce as the two species last 
figured, and is intermediate in character between the true Pheasants and the Jungle-Fowls of the genus 
Gallrn, whence our poultry are derived. 
But few examples of the Fire-backed Pheasants, as this bird and some of its immediate allies are termed 
from the brilliant colouring of the lower part of the back, have been received alive in this country. Of the 
present species called Vieillot’s Fireback, but one individual has ever been exhibited in the Society’s Gardens, 
a male presented by Colonel Butterworth in June, 1851. Mr. Wolf’s plate gives an accurate figure of 
this beautiful bird, which it is to be hoped may soon be reintroduced to grace our Aviaries. 
The home of Vieillot’s Fire-back is Tenasserim and other provinces of the Malayan peninsula, extending 
as far southwards as Malacca, and perhaps into Sumatra. In Borneo it is replaced by the Bornean Fire-back 
(Euplocamus nobilis), which has not yet been introduced alive into Europe. 
