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tion shows, and as he expressly says in Ibis, 1908. p. 583, he saw only one male 

 which Raddc had bought frozen in Kiachta, and of which he supposes that 

 it was brought there from Kalgan, north-west of Peking, because it is known 

 that Chinese traders are in the habit of bringing frozen pheasants from those 

 districts to Kiachta. The author had received notes, in litteris, on pheasants 

 from Kiangsu (Western China), and so it came about that a bird was named 

 after Kiangsu, where it never occurs, and that the type of kiancjsuensis is 

 a bird of uncertain origin, bought in Kiachta ! In the following year the 

 same author, according to his own statement {Ibis, 1908. p. 581), named the 

 same form Phasianus schcnsinensis, in the February number of a Russian 

 periodical on shooting and hunting, called Psovaia i Ruzheinaia Okhota, p. 50, 

 and this time from information in litteris about specimens from Kuku-Khota 

 and Uliassutai, i.e. places which are not in Shensi, where this ])heasant is not 

 found ! In 1908 another name was given to this bird by Alpheraky & Bianchi, 

 who (Ann. Mu.s. Zool. Acnd. St. Petcrshourg, xii. " 1907." p. 456) described a 

 specimen from Kuku-choto (Kuku-Khota) in South-eastern Mongolia as Phasianus 

 (jmelini pewzowi. It was certainly difficult to know what Buturlin meant by 

 his kiangsuensis and schen.sinensis, but a careful perusal of all this literature and 

 Buturlin's clear remarks in Ibis, 1908. p. 581, prove that 'pewzowi is the same 

 bird, notwithstanding Alpheraky & Bianchi's protest, as kiangsuensis, and 

 therefore the latter name must be used for it. This pheasant is so far only 

 known to the Russian authors, but Lord Rothschild has received from Professor 

 M. Menzbier a pheasant named Phasian us pcwzou-i, and said to have been obtained 

 near Kalgan in Eastern Mongolia in August 1910. It has been mounted and 

 came evidently through Th. Lorenz, whose excellent preparation it shows. I 

 believe that this really is peiczowi, rectius kiangsuensis. This bird shows the 

 peculiarities pointed out by Buturlin, but the whitish superciliary line is very 

 narrow, being merely indicated, and the rufous edges to the scapulars ai-c veiy 

 much darker than in P. c. torquatns, karpowi, pallasi, and hagcnbecki, being 

 deep rufous with a purplish gloss, a sti-iking character not mentioned by the 

 Russian authors. Altogether our bird is so similar to P. c. straurhi that it may 

 be said to differ from the latter only by the complete white ring round the neck, 

 and the flank-feathers, which are light in the middle and dark on the edges. 



This form must live in the districts of Kalgan and Knkii-choto in South- 

 eastern Mongolia, according to Buturlin also near Uliassutai in North-western 

 ]\Iongolia, i.e. far away ; it is said to have Ijcen shot there in June, when frozen 

 birds cannot be transjjorted ! 



Phasianus colchicus torqualus Gm. ex Latham. Restricted terra typica : 

 S.E. China. Buturlin named tliis form P/iasiaiivs holdereri gmelini, because he 

 is of opinion that the name torqualus cannot be restricted to any form, but this 

 view cannot be upheld. Names of the Linnean period cannot be lightly given 

 up. They must be upheld if it can possibly be done. 



This form inhabits South-eastern China from Canton to Hunan, and, 

 undoubtedly to the lower and middle course of the Yang-tse-kiang, perhaps 

 north to Shantung ! 



Phasianus colchicus karpowi But. Described Oru. Monatsber, 1904. p. 3, 

 from Te-lin in Southern Manchuria. 



Very similar to P. c. forqiiatus, but the long flank-feathers darker, more 

 brownish or rather more golden-brown. 



