I here review the species figured in this work, including any additional information which may have been, received up to' the
period o f going to press.
F a m i l y P H A S IA N ID M .
S u b f a m il y PAVONINE.
, G e n u s PAVO.
Paoo, Linn. Syst. Nat. (1766) v o l'i. p. 267. Type Paoo cristatus.
W K ttK M . . . . . I Plate HIV Volume I.
. 2 .P e r n nigripemis . . . . . ■ . . . .■ • Plate TV. Volume 1. • ^
As already stated, this must be considered only a variety of the common species.
Spidferus.
3. Paw muticus .. • • . • Plate V- Volume I.
G e n u s POLYPLECTRON.
Polyplectron, Temm. Pig. e t Gall. (1815) vql. iii. p. 674. Type Polyplectron thibetanum.
4. Polyplectron thibetanum . . . • • • • • . . ■ • • • • Plate- VI. Volume I.
5. Polyplectron bicalcaratum '. - - • • • •• • • • • . Plate VII. Volume I .
6. Polyplectron Germaini . . . . • • • Plate VIII. Volumh I.
. a. Emphanum.
7. Polyplectron emphanum . . . . .. . • •. • • ■ • • Plate IX. Volume I.
fsFifpg Chalcurum.
| . Polyplectron chdaman . • . • P b t e X . i ^
G e n u s ARGUS.
Argus, Temm. Pig. e t Gall. (1815) vol. iii. p. 678. Type Argus giganteus.
Although this genus has been employed in entomology, this is no reason for its rejection in ornithology; and I therefore continue
to employ the term in preference to Argusianus proposed by Rafinesque in 1815, or Argusanus instituted by Bonaparte in 1856.
9. Argus g i g a n t e u s • • Plate XI. Volume I.
10. Argus Grayi . . ’. Plate XII. Volume I.
I lately examined in the Leyden Museum specimens o f this species,- received from Borneo, which possessed all the characters
described as belonging to the types in the British Museum, thus proving the validity of the species, and that the supposition of
Borneo being its habitat was correct.
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12. Argus bipunctatus . . . ■ ■ • . . . • • ■ J
G e n u s CROSSOPTILON.
Crossoptilon, Hodgs. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1838) p. 864. Type Crossoptilon thibetanum.
13. Crossoptilon thibetanum . . . . . . . • • • • • • Plate XIV. Volume I.
14. Crossoptilon Drouyni . . . . . . . . . . . . . Plate XV. Volume I.
M. Carreau, in his letter to M. Audelle on the Pheasants seen by him in Thibet, speaks of one which is probably this species
or the C. thibetanum. “ The second is the White Pheasant. It is very common from Sa-tsien-low as far as Tchaman-to, iii the
centre of Thibet. ■ I t is met with a t every step, so that it may be said that it is not very wild. It goes in flocks of a hundred
individuals and even more; and as it is about the size of a small Turkey, from a distance a band of these birds might be taken
for a flock of lambs. This Pheasant is all white, excepting the top of the head and the end of the tail, which are black.”
15. Crossoptilon mantchuricum .’ . Plate XVI. Volume I.
M. C arreau states: “ One day, a t Sa-tsien-low, after having climbed during more than six hours a very rough mountain,
all at once, » t h e middle of the forest, I saw lying down beneath a small tree a flock of from fifteen to twenty Pheasants, so
black that I thought at first to have had a .chance a t a flight of Crows. When I made them rise, from the lowness of their tails,
the large size ofisfKeir legs, a little red cfrdle about the neck, and .alsd from their’ shrill cry, I saw that it was a species of Pheasant
I had not seen in Europe.” This was probably a flock of C. mantchuricum.
16. Crossoptilon auritum ■ : . . . . . . . . . . Plate XVII. Volume I.
S u b f a m il y LOPHOPHORINÆ.
G en u s LOPHOPHORUS.
Lophophorus,' Temm. Pig. e t Gall. (1815) ®ok iii. p. 673. Type Lophophorus Impeyanus.
17. Lophophorus Impeyanus . . . . . : . . • • • • • Plate XVIII. Volume I.
18. Lophophorus Lhuysi . . . . . . . . . . . . . Plate XIX. Volume I.
Chalcophasis.
19. Lophophorus Selaieri ' . . . . Plate XX. Volume I.
Ge n u s TETRAOPHASIS.
Tetraophasis, Elliot, Mon. Phas. (1871) vol. i. ' Type Tetraophasis obscurus.
20. Tetraophasis obscurus . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . Plate XXI. Volume I.
Ge n u s CERIORNIS.
Ceriornis, Swains. Classif. Birds (1837), pt. ii. p. 341. Type Ceriornis melanocephala.
‘l l . Ceriomis satyra . . • • . • ■ • • • • • • • Plate XXII. Volume I.
22. Ceriornis melanocephala . . .- . • • Plate XXIII. Volume I.
23. Ceriornis Temmincln . . . ■ . . • . . . . . Plate XXIV. Volume I.
24. Ceriornis Caboti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Plate XXV. Volume I.
Count. Salvadori having sent to Dr. 'Sclater a t London a coloured drawing of C. Caboti taken from life, I am able to give the
exact hues of the bare skin of the throat when extended. The central part, with the sides of the face and line ,over the eye, is
orange; along the sides, between the orange and the edge, is blue. The outer edge is reddish, broken up by the blue, which runs
into it by various irregular lines in a similar manner as is seen in this part of the other species. These various hues would, of
course, not be seen where the skin was contracted as is usually the case.
25. Ceriornis Blythi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Plate XXVI. Volume I.
26. Pucrasia macrolopha
27. Pucrasia Duvauceli
28. Pucrasia xanthospila
28 bis. Pucrasia Darwini
. G e n u s PUCRASIA.
, G. R. Gray, List Gen. Birds (1841), p. 79. Type Pucras crolopha
Plate XXX. Volume I.
Plate XXXI. Volume'l.
Plate XXXIII. Volume I.
S u b f a m il y MELEAGRINÆ.
Ge n u s MELEAGRIS.
Meleagris, Linn. Syst. Nat. (1766) vol. i. p. 268. - Type Meleagris gallopaw.
29. Meleagris gallopaw . ' . . . . . . Plate XXVII. Volume I.
30. Meleagris mexicana . . . . . . . '. • • • . . Plate XXVIII. Volume I.
31. Meleagris ocellata . . . Plate XXIX. Volume I.