. Birds. Birds. 268 CHABADEIID^. Genus PAVONCELLA, Leach, 1816. Bill moderately long, flexible, almost straight; both mandibles' grooved, the upper almost to the tip ; nostrils linear, close to the base. Wing long, pointed, 1st 'quill longest; tertiaries elongate ; tail moderate, rounded. Tarsus longer than the bill from gape, transversely shielded in front and behind; hind toe moderate, outer and middle toes connected by a short web. The above characters are insufficient for generic distinction, but the circumstances that the male is always larger than the female, and that at the breeding-sea
. Birds. Birds. 268 CHABADEIID^. Genus PAVONCELLA, Leach, 1816. Bill moderately long, flexible, almost straight; both mandibles' grooved, the upper almost to the tip ; nostrils linear, close to the base. Wing long, pointed, 1st 'quill longest; tertiaries elongate ; tail moderate, rounded. Tarsus longer than the bill from gape, transversely shielded in front and behind; hind toe moderate, outer and middle toes connected by a short web. The above characters are insufficient for generic distinction, but the circumstances that the male is always larger than the female, and that at the breeding-season he assumes an entirely distinct plumage from that worn by the hen, varying in coloration to an extent unequalled in any other species of bird, with a ruff of long feathers extending from the nape down each side of the neck to the breast, afFord ample grounds for placing the EufE in a peculiar genus. He is polygamous, and some of his habits at the breeding- season resemble those of polygamous Qallinoe. 1468. Pavoncella pugnax. The, Bvff and Beeve. Trjnga pugnax, lAnn. Synt. Nat. i, p. 247 (1766). Pavoncella pugnax, Leach, Sust. Cat. S. M. p. 29 (1816); Sfiai-ne, {,^.500. Machetes pugnax, Cuv. Regrm An. i, p. 490 (1817); Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 460; Davids. Hf Wend. S. F. vii, p. 89; Hume, ibid. pp. 97, 487; id. Cat. no. 880; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 3o7; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 873: Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 85 ; Butler, ibid. p. 429; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 96; Scully, ibid. p. 588; Beid, 8. F. x, p. 70; Davidson, ibid. Tf.'621; Biddulph, Ibis, \&&2, p. 287; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 396; Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 323; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 177. Philomachus pugnax, O. B. Gray, List Gen. Birds, 2nd ed. 1841, p. 89; Blyth, Cat. p. 270 ; Irbi/, Ibis, 1861, p. 241: Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 687; A. 8. B- xl, pt. 2, p. 276; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xh, pt. 2, p. 253; Hume, 8. F. i, p. 239; Adam, ibid. p. 396; Blytk ^ Wald. Birds Burm. p. (5; Butler, 8. F. iv, p. 17; v, p
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