124 Letters, Announcements, ^c. 
I find that^ in writing up my notes for my former papers 
in regard to tliese speeies, I myself confused the dimensions 
I had recorded on separate scraps for the two Malayan forms^ 
and gave for B. affinis what pertained to B. javanensis, and 
argued on the same accordingly. 
For this I cry peccavi; hut the main fact remains un¬ 
changed, viz. that, as I have throughout contended, B. affinis 
and B. javanensis, apud Blyth, are both quite distinct from 
B, castaneus. 
Sirs, —In Part 2, vol. v. of ^ Stray Feathers,^ Mr. Hume 
has published some criticisms on certain species of the Pha- 
sianidse, regarding which I desire to make a few remarks. 
First (p. 118), referring to the supposed new species of 
Polyplectron, called P. intermedins, Mr. Hume, having found 
that it was the same as my P. germani, says that his descrip¬ 
tion of the tail-feathers was so accurate that he is surprised 
I had not informed him that the two birds were the same in 
my letter to ^ The Ibis’ of June 1873. I could not give him 
the information he desired in the way indicated, for the simple 
reason that I never wrote any letter to ^ The Ibis,^ nor to any 
other journal, about his Polyplectron ; and the footnote at¬ 
tached to Mr. Blanfurd’s able review of ^ Stray Feathers ’ in 
^ The Ibis ’ of April 1873 had reference solely to some so- 
called species of the late Mr. G. B. Gray ! 
Mr. Hume^s next criticism (p. 138) is, that as I state the 
male of the bird I call Euplocamus ignitus, when immature, 
has the flanks streaked with chestnut, and the central tail- 
feathers brown,^^ he wants to be informed (after describing a 
well-known stage of plumage observed in the young male 
E. ignitus) where the bird with pale chestnut flanks, varied 
with purplish black,mentioned by Sclater, is to come from, 
or what stage of E. vieilloti it represents. I regret very much 
to be obliged to say that I do not know. So far as I am con¬ 
cerned, and the opinion I gave, the case stands as follows:— 
What I meant by saying that the immature male of the bird 
I call E. ignitus had the flanks streaked with chestnut,^^ was. 
