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Phasianus elegans (Elliot). 



stone's Pheasant. 



Phasianus elegans, Elliott, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (4), VI,, p. 312 (1870) ; 

 Sclater, P.Z.S., 1870, p. 670 ; Elliott, Monog. Phas., II., PI. VIII (1872) ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B.M., XXII., p. 329 (1893) ; id Hand-L. Game-B., 

 II., p. 31 (1897) ; Blanford Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, IV., p. 81 (1898) ; Gates, 

 Man. Game-B., I., p. 299 (1898) ; Styan, Ibis, 1699, p. 298 ; Davies, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 408 ; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 411, id Ibis, 1908, pp. 574, 576, 685. 

 592 ; Harington, Jour, B. N, H. Soc, XiX., p. 309 (1909); Sclater Ibis, 1912, 

 p. 554 ; Ingram, Novit. Zool., XIX., p. 271 (1912); Bailey, Geog. Journal, 

 XXXIX., p. 346 (1912) ; id Jour. B. N.H. Soc, XXII., p. 367 (1913) ; Bangs 

 and Phillips, Bull. Muse. Comp. Zool., LVIII., No. 6, p. 269 (1914). 



Phasianus sladeni (Anderson MSS.) Elliott, P.Z.S., 1870, pp. 404, 408 ; 

 Anderson, P.Z.S., 1871, p. 214; Swinhoe, P.Z.S., 1871, p. 378 ; David and 

 Oustalet, Ois, Chine, p. 411 (1877) ; Anderson, B.W. Yunnan Exp., p. 671, 

 PI. 11. (1878). 



? Phasianus sucJischanensis, Bianchi, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., V, Ser. T., 

 XXIV., n. 1-2, p, 83 (1906) : Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, p. 574, 



Vernacula/r Names. — ?Wucrii (^Kachin), Tso-ka (Tibetan). 



Bescrqytion — AJalU Male. — Crown from forehead to nape and hind 

 neck bronze-green, the ear tufts darker and more bine ; chin and 

 throat deep green ; neck in front and on the sides deep purple blue 

 with purple copper reflections in some lights, this colour passing- 

 round the base of the neck as a collar behind ; upper back golden 

 chestnut, changing into deep chestnut on the back and scapulars ; 

 the feathers next the neck are centred with black and their tips are 

 notched with the same ; the feathers of the back and the scapulars 

 have black centres mottled and sub-oiit-lined with buff, and the 

 same notches as on the upper back, but the black obsolete. Lower 

 back, rump and tail coverts pale green-grey with sub-terminal bars 

 of lusti'ous emerald green, and each feather with the concealed base 

 black with buff concentric bands. Tail feathers rufous brown with 

 broad black bars, narrowly edged above and below with golden buff; 

 the central pair have wide margins of pink-grey, across which the 

 black bands are continued as dull crimson purple marks ; on each 

 succeeding pair the pink edges are reduced in size, and are absent 

 on the outermost pair, and sometimes on one or two of the next 

 pairs also. 



Wing-coverts pale green grey with emerald green reflections, and 

 with the innermost greater coverts splashed with maroon, broadly 

 on the outer and narrowh^ on the inner webs ; quills brown, the 

 primaries barred with bufl' on the outer webs and Avith broken bars 

 on the inner ; secondaries broadly edged with olive brown and irre- 

 gularly marked with buff on both webs. 



Below, breast deep glossy green, each feather narrowly margined 

 with velvety black, and those on the lower breast notched, though 

 less conspicuously so thaai on the back ; flanks and sides of the breast 

 golden copper, becoming almost purple copper next the green of the 



