168 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 


Photographs, Drawings eather hac: Animals sent 
or stuffed specimens: elsewhere. 
Name. 


Sonn. Bank. F,F, 
632.1 ? + 
— 22 + 
— 34 photo complete sent to Mr. LEURING 
| (alive March ’23) 
— 490 photo complete is 
FS. B..391.7. 2 37,8: 
B. 206.1 3 
Sonn. Bank. F;F, 
633.1 ? + 
— 22? + 
— 39+ 
— 4? + 
— 5? + 
— 6? + 
CHAPTER III 
WHAT Is Gallus Bankiva ? 
According to BEEBE, this species can shortly be characterised as fol- 
lows: ; 
Male. Crown, neck and hackles golden brown to orange red, passing 
into straw color on the longer hackles. Mantle, smaller and greater 
coverts metallic green or purple. Scapulars, back and median 
wingcoverts dark marroon, shading into orange red on rump. Ex- 
posed parts of secondaries cinnamon. Tertiaries and tail metallic 
green. Lower parts black. Face and throat thinly feathered; a ser- 
rated comb and two gular wattles. 
Female. Rusty red on head, shading into orange on neck and pale 
yellow on mantle with median black stripe. Upper parts reddish 
brown, finely mottled with black. Secondaries mottled with pale 
brown on outer webs. Fore neck chestnut. Rest of under-parts 
pale light red. Face thinly feathered, comb very small. 
Range: North-Eastern and Central India, south through Siam, Cochin- 
China and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. Introduced into many 
other islands of the East-India’s. 
As for as we could ascertain, the only reason why BEEBE admits the 


