Crested fireback  (Lophura ignita)

Fireback pheasants are widely admired for their impressive facial decorations, which play an important role in courtship displays. The vivid blue facial wattles of the crested fireback are particularly striking, and are coupled in the male with a dark, purplish-blue plumage and a distinctive, bushy black crest (4). The central tail feathers are contrastingly coloured, normally white in the Sumatran and Malayan races, L. i. rufa and L. i. macartneyi, and cinnamon-buff in the subspecies from Borneo, L. i. ignita and L. i. nobilis. The lower back is a deep red, and while Bornean males have a coppery-chestnut abdomen, the Malayan and Sumatran male's is usually blue-black with white streaks, although there are various colour varieties in L. i. macartneyi (4) (5). Females have a brownish plumage with a bushy brown crest and white stripes and scaling on their underparts (5).