364 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
c) the deep black of a particular hue, typical for varius, of its under- 
surface 
d) the violet striped wingcoverts. | 
e) the violet and green striped tailcoverts and tail-feathers 
After carefully weighing all available evidence, it seems probable, but 
it is unfortunately not certain, that the cock 201.1 & received by MR. Hou- 
WINK as a bankiva, was in reality a segregate from the cross Malay game, 
or a similar domestic hen, with a male varius; it certainly was no pure 
bankiva. 
B. The hen 201.2 2 (PI. VII fig. 6) 
Having thus weighed the evidence available as to the probable an- 
cestry of the cock of the original pair, without having been able to 
obtain any certainty however, we shall now try to determine what the 
hen of that pair can have been. 
Acording to BEEBE, British India bankiva — hens have neckfeathers - 
with a wide black stripe down the centre. In our hen the central stripe 
is more or less distinctly crossbarred or pencilled or a combination of 
the two, much like the neckfeathers of one of Mr. HOUWINK'S par- 
tridge colored bantams e. g. 191.4 9. Another stuffed partridge-colored 
bantam hen has the ring J 73 N. M. 1914, a ring of the Dutch Society 
for marking birds, which allowed us to determine that this bird had 
been bred by the wellknown breeder of Dutch partridge colored Ban- 
tams Mr. J. Mur at Loosdrecht. The neckfeathers of this bantam 
come much nearer to the description given by BEEBE for bankiva- 
hens, although a faint pencilling is visible on the black center part. 
A bankiva-hen from Wellesley, Malacca, collected by Dr. HAGEN 
and now in the Leyden Museum is intermediate between 201:2 © and 
BEEBE’s British Indian specimens, in so far as the center of the neck- 
feathers is black, but the outer margin of this central part is somewhat 
interrupted, so that it gives the impression of being cross barred. 
A bankiva-specimen from Java no. 3 col.. JUNGHUHN 1864 in the 
Leyden Museum not only shows a distinct crossbarring of some of the 
neckfeathers, but, moreover those neckfeathers are not pointed, as is 
. characteristic of bankiva-neckfeathers, but truncate (Pl. VII fig. 7). 
The green gloss of the stripe, mentioned by BEEBE, as characteristic 
for British Indian bankiva’s is absent in the birds referred to. 






