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Title: A hand-book to the game-birds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924
Subjects: Game and game-birds Upland game birds
Publisher: London : W.H. Allen & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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i:uus,). E. Gray, LI. Lid. Zool. i. pi. 36 (103^-32).Argusiamis argus, Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 52 (1883): Ogiivic-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. ^Gt, (1893).(ric:c XXIX.)Adult Male.—A short black crest; general colour above black,chequered and mottled 7iith buff and rufous ; lower back andrump huff, with rounded black spots; long middle tail-featherswhitish-buff with kidney-shaped black spots and blotches;primary quills beautifully patterned, and ornamented withclose-set rows of black and rufous spots ; a rufous-brown band,finely dotted with white, on the basal part of the inner webonly, divided from the dull-blue shaft by a yellow line regu-larly barred with black ; secondary quills equally wonderful intheir markings, and having the outer webs decorated with a rowof large ocelli, gradually increasing in size towards the extremity PLATE XXIX.
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ARaUS PHEASANT TtynuutiiScMs. luiutta. THE ARGUS, PHEASANTS. 7 I of the feathers; each of these eyes yellowish in the centre,shading into white on the one side and reddish-brown on theother, and bounded by a black band; under-parts black withwavy bars and markings of chestnut and buff. Naked skin onsides of head and throat dark blue. Total length, 72 inches;wing to the end of the primary quills, 19; to the end of thesecondaries, 34 ; tail, 50 ; tarsus, 4*4. Adult Female.—Neck chestnut^ slightly mottled with black,shading into reddish-buff on the mantle, which is thicklymottled with black; lower back bright buff, barred andmottled with black; wing-coverts and secondary ()uills black,thickly covered with buff hieroglyphics , primary fjuills chest-nut, irregularly marked with black; under-parts i-ufous, fintlymoUled with black. Total length, 30 inches; wing to the endof the primary quills, 13 ; to the end of the secondaries, 15 ;tail, i25 ; tarsus, 4. Range.—Laos Mountains, Siam, Sou

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