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PHASIANID.E. 



outer web buff, oa the inner pale chestnut ; neck and chest black 

 edged with pale buff; breast and belly rufous chestnut edged 

 with buff, more or less mottled on the sides with black ; rest of 

 underparts buff mottled with black, and the tail-feathers brownish 

 or reddish brown, irregularly mottled and barred with black and 

 buff except the two outer pairs, which are mostly pale buff slightly 

 mottled with black. Total length 30 inches, wing 8"9, tail 15'5, 

 tarsus 2' 6. 



Hah. Same as that of the genus. 



a, b. 2 ad. sk. 



N.W. Himalayas. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 

 fP.]. 



Hj/brid between T. temmincki and C. wallichi. See p. 276. 



Hijbrid between Catreus wallichi and Phasianus colchicus. 

 a. S ad. sk. England. Gould Coll. 



35. PHASIANUS. 



Type. 



Phasianus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766) P. colchicus. 



iSyrmaticus, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1229 P. reevesi. 



Graphephasianus, Reichenb. Nat. Syst. TUg. p. xxix 



(1852) _ P. scemmerriugi. 



Calophasis, Elliot, Monogr. Phas. i. pi. xiii bis or 



pt. iv. (1872) P. elHoti. 



*Tai] composed of 16 or IS feathers, long and wedge-shaj)ed, 

 the middle pair being much longer than the outer pair. 



The first primary is about equal to the 8th and considerably 

 longer than the 10th. 



Sides of the head naked ; uo crest, but the ear-tufts are consider- 

 ably lengthened in the male. 



Tarsi in male provided with a pair of .spurs. 



Jiauije. South-eastern Europe : across Central Asia ; Japan ; For- 

 mosa. 



* In P. humia and P. ellioti there are only 16 tail-feathers, all the other 

 species have 18. 



