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nister, or Kalahome (the most gentlemanly of the Sia-

Since writing the above, the Prime Mi
me the Pheasant is found at Rapri or Raxaburi

loss of time.
mese Ministers and officials), has called on me. He tells ‘
» in lat. 13° 33 N.; long., say 100° E.).

(according to Sir Jobn Bowring’s ma} oe,
With regard to the bird’s affinities to the other groups of the Gallinacee, Mt 1S most nearly allied to Euplo-
comus,—indeed, it can scarcely be separated from that form ; bu Mr. Blyth has proposed for it a new
generic title, that of Diardigallus, and Bonaparte has followed in his wake. Mr. Blyth had the living bird
before him, from which to draw his conclusions, and he states that the tail-feathers turn outwards, like those
of the Black Cock. If such be the case, the bird differs from the members of the genus Luplocomus, whose

after the manner of those of the Domestic Cock.

tails are carried vertically,
own the centre of the head, ear-coverts, nape, and

Face and wattles naked, and of a brilliant red; line d
chin dull black ; shafts of the crest-feathers black, their feathered tips steel-blue ; neck, breast, shoulders,

and upper half of the back slate-grey, very minutely
slate-grey, more conspicuously freckled with greyish white, and with a narrow line of white, succeeded by a
broad fascia of black across the tip ; feathers of the centre of the back slate-grey, freckled with white at the
base, and largely tipped with lustrous golden yellow, only the latter colour showing, and forming a conspicuous
patch ; feathers of the lower part of the back, and the upper t
band of shining steel-blue near the tip, succeeded by a broader

red, these bands alone being seen and changing in hue and in 1
dark grey, minutely freckled with light grey ; primaries brown, freckled on their outer margins with light
een; feathers covering the abdomen and flanks black, margined with steel-

freckled with greyish white ; wing-coverts and scapularies

ail-coverts black at the base, with a broad
band at the tip of rich deep fiery crimson
ntensity as the position is varied ; wings

grey; tail-feathers glossy oil-gr
blue; thighs black; bill greenish horn-colour ; legs and feet deep red, the spaces between the scales paler ;

nails horny flesh-colour ; spur dark horn-colour.
The figure is rather less than the natural size. In the distance I have given a reduced copy of Mr. Craw-
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furd’s drawing, in case it should prove to be a representation of the female of this bird; of course the

brown-coloured figure is the one referred to.

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