320 rnAsiANiD.E. 



e'". Scapulars Indian red ; submarginal 

 green bands on the rump-feathers 



wider elec/ans, p. 329. 



/'". Scapulars sandy red; submaro-iiial 

 green bands on the rump-feathers 



narrower vlangali, p. 330. 



g". Chest fiery orange-red. 



g"'. Middle of the bre;ist and sides of 

 the belly dark green ; flank- 

 feathers orange-red strauchi, p. 330. 



h'". Middle of the breast and sides of 

 the belly slightly glossed with 

 purplish green; flank-feathers buff, decollatus, p. 331. 

 f. A white ring round the neck. 



h". Ground-colour of mantle and flanks 

 yellowish buff. 

 i'''. Scapulars margined with Indian 



red torqnatus, p 331. 



h'". Scapulars margined with sandy 



brown satsr.hetmensis, p. 333. 



i". Ground-colour of mantle and flanks 



pale primrose formosanui^, p. 333. 



d. Underparts dark green, on copper-red in 



the plumage versicolor, p. 334. 



II. Crown reddish brown or chestnut. 



C. Lower back black, margined and barred with 

 white. 



e. Sides of neck and belly white pUiofi, p. 3.3;"). 



f. Sides of neck steel-blue; belly chestnut . . humice, p. 335. 

 I)'. Lower back maroon. 



g. Margined on the sides of the feathers with 



fiery gold sammoTt'iigi, p. 336.- 



h. Margined on the sides of the feathers with 



white scintillans, p. 337. 



III. Crown of the head white reeved, p. 337. 



1. Phasianus colchicus. 



The Pheasant, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 14, pis. 2o, 26 (1 738) ; Se/h,/, 



Brit. Orn. i. pt. ii. pi. 57 (18.33). 

 Le Faisan, Briss. Orn. i. p. 262 (1760) ; D'Auhenf. PL Enl. pis. 121, 



122 ; Bvff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 328, pi. xi. (1771). 

 Phasianus colchicus, i('«w. -S'. N. i. p. 271 (1766) ; Gviel. Nov. C'onan. 



Ac. Fetr. XV. p. 451 (1771); Gm. 8. N. i. pt. ii. p. 741 (1788); 



Lath. hid. Orn. ii. p. 629 (1790) ; Boyinat. Tahl. Encyd. Meih. i. 



p. 183, pi. 87. fig. 4 (1791^ ; Meyer^- IFolf, Ta.^ch. der detotsch. Vdq. i. 



p. 291, pi. (1810); Pall. Zvoyr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 83 (1811): 



Te^nm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 289 (1813), iii. p. 666 (1815) ; id. 



Man. d'Orn. p. 282 (1815) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 29 



(1817); Steph. in Shaivs Gen. Zool. xi. p. 222, pi. 13 [hybrid] 



(1819); Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 453 (1820) ; Pou.r, Orn.' Prov. 



p. 47, pis. 262, 263 (1825) ; Vieill. Faun. Franq. p. 247, pi. 107. 



figs. 1 &2 (1828); Werner, Atl. Ois. d Fur. Ord. 10, pis. i. ^t ii. 



(1828) ; Cuv. Rcg.Anun. i. p. 477 (1829) ; Grif. cd. C'uv. iii. p. 22 



(1829); Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 495(1831); Montagu, Orn. Diet. 



ed. 2, p. 367 (1831) ; Menetr. Cat. Pais. p. 46 (]S3i>) [Caucasus] ; 



Selhg, III. Brit. Orn. i. p. 417, pi. Ivii. (1833); Naion. Nat. Vog. 



Beutschl. vi. p. 4^2, pi. 162 (18.33); Schinz, Nat. Abbild. Vog. 



