. Bird notes . t up in the BirdGallery of the Museum (Natural HistoryBranch) where a specimen is mounted so as to showthe feathers to advantage. The habitat of the ArgusPheasant in Siam, the Malay Peninsular, andSumatra. The Moonal Pheasant {Lophophorus refidgens) ofwhich there is a good male specimen just now, and, Ibelieve, also a female, is well known in colouring of the male bird is probably the mostintense, in its metallic brilliancy, of all the Pheasanttribe. This bird is seen to the best advantage in thesunlight, and as it moves about the splendid coloursare refle
. Bird notes . t up in the BirdGallery of the Museum (Natural HistoryBranch) where a specimen is mounted so as to showthe feathers to advantage. The habitat of the ArgusPheasant in Siam, the Malay Peninsular, andSumatra. The Moonal Pheasant {Lophophorus refidgens) ofwhich there is a good male specimen just now, and, Ibelieve, also a female, is well known in colouring of the male bird is probably the mostintense, in its metallic brilliancy, of all the Pheasanttribe. This bird is seen to the best advantage in thesunlight, and as it moves about the splendid coloursare reflected first from one part and then from 65 another. These colours must be seen in a livingspecimen to be appreciated, and probably can only fully by those fortunate people who havehad the opportunity of seeing the male bird display-ing before the soberly coloured female. The Common Moonal is found in the forests ofthe Himalayas from Bhotan to Afghanistan, atelevations of from 7,000 to 12,000 MANCHURIAN CROSSOPTILON. The Manchurian Kared-Pheasant, or Crossoptilon{^Crossoptilon rnancfuiriaini) an extraordinary lookingbird, with its wliite ear tufts sticking up on each sideof its face as if they had been brushed into position,and its tail looking as if the feathers had beencombed, is represented by three specimens, whichappear to be a male and two females. The femalesare only different to the males in that they have nospurs. It is a soberly clad bird, in a black and whitebrown plumage, and inhabits the mountains of Man-churia and the neighbouring province of Pe-chi-li. 66 Of Jungle Fowl, the Society have now pairs ofboth the Indian species, the Bankiva or Red JungleFowl {Gallus bankiva) and the Sonnerats or GreyJungle Fowl {G. so7inerati). The Red Jungle Fowl isbelieved to be the species from which all our domesticbreeds of poultry were derived, and it will be seen lobear a very close resemblance lo the well-known
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