48 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
but a low, permanent fold of skin represents the wattle of the adult 
cock. Legs pale flesh color. 
Length 400 mm.; bill from nostril 15; wing 195; tail 115; tarsus 58; 
middle toe and claw 48; spurs rudimentary. Weight 1 Ib to 1 Ib 4 ozs. 
VORDERMAN gives the following measures for a specimen trapped 
near Batavia: | 
Length 430 mm., culmen rostri until end of rudimentary comb 32; 
wing 180, tail 133, tarsus 64, middletoe and claw 50, spurs rudimen- 
tary. 
This specimen trapped near Soenthar, where Gallus varius is still 
common, as also in the woods near Papangan and Kapok is described 
by VORDERMAN in Batavia Vogels II. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XLIV, 
p. 231. As it is a specimen from West-Java, while those described by 
BEEBE come from East Java, VORDERMAN’s description is here trans- 
lated. 
„All feathers of the back of the rump black with rufous hairy borders 
and one or more rufous transverse bandelettes pointed medianly and 
posteriorly. The shaft is near these pale, while the black which domi- 
nates on the rump has a greenish metallic gloss. On the head and the 
neck the black color gradually disappears and is replaced by a sepia- 
brown, while the black on the sides of the neck is limited to some diff- 
use dark transverse bands. Around the eye and on the anterior part of 
the cheek pale rufous. Throat white. Feathers of throat and breast pale 
brown with clear shafts and blackish borders. Feathers of the belly and 
the front face of the shins rufous, back part of the flanks and lower tail- 
coverts rufous black with pale rufous transverse bars. 
Tail carried folded ; a transverse section would have the shape of an A. 
Tailfeathers black with green metallic gloss and pale rufous transverse 
bars or transverse spots on the outer parts of the vane, while they end 
in rufous seams. | 
The highly developped alula, the primaries and their large coverts 
alone are of a dark bistra color. The others are black with clear rufous, 
sometimes S like curved transverse bars. This applies exclusively to 
those parts of the feathers which are visible when the wing is folded 
e.g. in the case of the secondaries limited to the outer parts of the 
vane. The other external wingcoverts agree in color and design with 
the upper rumpfeathers. Upper mandible dark horn color, lower 
mandible paler with a yellowish tint at the base. Iris grey-yellow. 
