. A hand-book to the game-birds . and Javan Jungle-Fowls, and clearly exhibitsthe characters of both parents. The comb is toothed, and inaddition to the large median throat wattle, there is a smalllateral pair. Callus violaceits^ Kelsall (J. As. Soc. Str. Br. p. 167 (1891) and No. xxv. p. 173) is also in all proba-bility a hybrid between the above species. The type, supposedto have come from Borneo, was living in the Botanic Gardensat Singapore. The bird from the Sulu Islands has been namedGallus straniineicollis by Dr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 317), butit is probably only the offspr
. A hand-book to the game-birds . and Javan Jungle-Fowls, and clearly exhibitsthe characters of both parents. The comb is toothed, and inaddition to the large median throat wattle, there is a smalllateral pair. Callus violaceits^ Kelsall (J. As. Soc. Str. Br. p. 167 (1891) and No. xxv. p. 173) is also in all proba-bility a hybrid between the above species. The type, supposedto have come from Borneo, was living in the Botanic Gardensat Singapore. The bird from the Sulu Islands has been namedGallus straniineicollis by Dr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 317), butit is probably only the offspring of a domestic variety runwild. THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. GENUS POLYPLECTRON. Folyplectron^ Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 363 (1813). Type, P. chijiquis (Miill.). Tail composed of twenty to tweitty-fotir feathers, large, full, and rounded, the middle pair being about twice as long as the outer pair, and each ornamented with one or a pair of jnetallic ocelli^ which are rudimentary or absent in the females of some species. PLATE GREY PEACOCK-PHEASANT. THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. 6l First primary flight-feather much shorter than the second,which is shorter than the tenth ; sixth rather the longest. Sides of the face 7iaked, or very nearly so. The male is generally armed with two, and sometimes threespurs on each leg. Sexes different in pMmage. I. THE GREY PEACOCK-PHEASANT. POLYPLECTRON CHINQUIS. Pavo chinquis^ Miill. Linn. S. N. Suppl. p. 121 (1776). Pavo tibefanus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 731 (17S8). Polyptectro/i chinquis, Temm. Pig. et Gall. 363 (1813), 675 (1815) [part]; id. PL Col. v. pi. 17 [No. 539](1831) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 50 (1871) ; Sclater,P. Z. S. 1879, pi. viii. fig. 2 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. xxii. p. 354 (1893). Polyplectron tidetanum, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 6 (1872);Hume and Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 105, pi. (1878). Polyplectron atehspilion, P. cydospiluni^ P. enicospi/uni, G. , List Gall. Brit. Mus. pp. 23, 24
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