LÖNNBERG, A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM TIANSHAN 7 



is remarkable for its size. The specimens described above 

 were males but, nevertheless, the measurement of their 

 wings is fully as large as the same of the female of the com- 

 mon Hobby. All these characteristics taken together have 

 compehed me to distinguish the bird from Tianshan with a 

 subspecific name. 



25. Phasianus mongolicus turcestanicus Lorenz. 



(^ Febr. 1902 Sir Darja, Turkestan. 



A ma le pheasant labeled as above, is quite typical, with 

 the collar only narrowly interrupted in front. But this bird 

 differs from some pheasants from Baimgol in a remarkable 

 degree so that I must regard the latter as being more nearly 

 related to 



26. Phasianus mongolicus (semitorquatus(?) 



Sewertzow.) 



c/cf ^^ji, 29/4 1902 Baimgol. 

 ö^ juv. ^5/8 1902 



9? i^V4, "\'4 1902 



I have used Buturlin's synopsis of the true pheasants 

 (»The Ibis», July 1904) for the determination of these birds 

 and to judge from this most recent work on the subject the 

 pheasants from Baimgol differ from the typical mongolicus in 

 having strongly clouded or blackish centres to the wing coverts. 

 BuTURLiN seems to regard this characteristic as the most im- 

 portant for the subspecies semitorquatns, together with the 

 narrowness and slight development of the white collar, which 

 even may be in some cases »nearly wanting» (1. c. p. 380). 

 Now the white collar is widely interrupted in front in these 

 specimens but otherwise quite well developed as in the typical 

 mongolicus. It seems accordingly as if these Pheasants from 

 Baimgol should be intermediate between the typical mongo- 

 licus and the subspecies semitorquatus. A comparison between 

 them and the specimen representing the other subspecies 

 turcestanicus may therefore be of interest 



