35. PIIASIANUS. .'521 



p. 249, pi. 95 (18.3.3); Macyill. Brit. B. i. p. 114 (1837); Gould, 

 B. Eur. pi. 247 (1837) ; Boimp. Comp. List, p. 42, no. 285 (1838) ; 

 Sc/ii/iz, Ein-oj). FiiuH. i. p. 277 (1840) ; Ihhnid. J'o)/. Russ. Merid. 

 iii. p. 217 (1S40) ; Keys. u. Bias. Wirbelth. ]>. Ixiv (1840) ; Crv.fp. 

 Oni. Gard, p. 321 (1840); Yiirrcll, Brit. B. ii. p. 277, woodcut 

 (1843); Gra;/, List B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 23 (1844); Schl. Rev. Crit. 

 Ois. d'Eur. p. Ixxiv (1844); Miihle, Bcitr. Orn. Gricchenl. p. 85 

 (1844); Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. iii. p. 50 (1844) [Cau- 

 casus Pr.] ; Gray, Gm. B. iii. p. 407 (1845) ; Bliith, Cat. B. Mi'.". 

 As. Soc. p. 240 (1849); Ucz/l. Orn. Europ. i'i. p. 40 (1.^49); 

 Thompson, N. II. Irel. ii. p. 10 (1850) ; Waiters, JV. Hist. B. Irel. 

 p. 123 (1853); Schinz, Nat. Voq. p. 148, pi. 71 (1853); Brehm, 

 Vofjelfang, p. 205 (1855); Powys, Ibis, 1860, p. 237 [Albania, 

 Saloniiv-aJ ; Sclat. List Fha.^. p. 4 (18(i3) ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 116 ; 

 Fitz. Afl. Nat., ViU). fi?. 227 (1864) ; Filijipi, Viagg. Pers. i. p. 350 

 (1865); More, Ibi's, 1865. p. 425; Gray, List Gallinm Brit. Mm. 

 p. 26 (1867); Dawkius, Ibis, 1869, ])! 358; Gould, B. Asia,Vu. 

 pi. 34 (1869) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 408 ; Hutton, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 397 [N. Zealand]; Elwes .5- Buckl. Ibis, 1870, p. 829 [Tiirkev]; 

 Grai/, Ilcmd-l. B. ii. p. 257 (1870) ; Gray, B. West Scotl. p. 224 

 (1871) ; Elliot, Mo7wg. P/ias. ii. pi. 2 ^textj (1872) ; Saunders, Ibis, 

 1872, p. 81 [Sicily]; Taylor, Ibis, 1872, p. 231 [Crimea]; Serertz. 

 Bull. Mosc. xh iii. pt. 3, p. 208 (1875) ; Davford if Brown, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 418 [Transvlvania] ; Jesse, Ibis, 1876, p. 382 [Corsica]; 

 Dress. B. Eur. vii. p'. 85, pi. 469 (1879); Booth, Row/h Notes, ii. 

 3 pp. (1881-7); Giglioli, Ibis, 1881, p. 206; Seebokm, Ibis, 1^82, 

 p. 220 [Astrakhan] ; id. Ibis, 1883, p. 27 [Caucasus] ; Bogd. Consp. 

 Av. Ross. i. p. 19 (1884); Radde, Orn. Caucus, p. 367(1884); 

 Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 41 [Cor-sica] ; Giglioli, Av. Ilal. \). •V.\^ 

 (1886); Tegetm. P. Z. IS. 1886, p. 81 [^Transcaucasia]; Schneider, 

 Ornis, 1887, p. 537 [Upper Rhine Vallev] ; Radde, Ornis, 1887, 

 p. 496 [Caucasus] ; Salvad. El. Ucc. Ifal. p. 195 (1887) ; Seebohm, 

 Ibis, 1887, pp. 169, 170, 288 ; Gtirney, Ibis, 1888, ]>. 227 ; Giylioli, 

 Av. Ital. i.t. i. p. 515 (1889); Sa'und. III. Man. Brit. B. p. 485 

 (1889) ; Radde u. Walt. Ornis, 1889, p. 90 [Transcaucasia] ; Dubois, 

 Orjm, 1890, p. 327 [Beljziuni] ; Radde, Ornis, 1890, p. 413 

 [Caucasus]; Attum, J. f. O. 1891, p. 1.30. 



Common Pheasant, Za^/<. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 712 (1783) ; id. Gen. 

 7//.s'^ viii. p. 187 (1823). 



Phasianus marp:inatus, Wolf S( Meyer, Tasch. Deuts. i. p. 291, pi. (1810). 



Pha>ianu3 colchicus septentrionalis, Lorenz, J.f. O. 1888, p. 572 

 [N. Caucasus]. 



Adult male. Top of the head bronze-green : forehead, back and 

 base of the neck, chin and throat dark green, shading into purjile 

 on the sides and front of the neck ; mantle fiery orange, eacli feather 

 with a narrow W-shaped margin of dark puridish green ; feathers 

 of tlie scapulars and interscapulary region mottled with black and 

 bufi' in the middle and surrounded by consecutive bands of bull', 

 black, and orange-red, roughly parallel with the margin of the 

 feather, which has the tip glossed with purplish lake ; lower back *, 



* It is very rarely now tlint anything approaching n pure-bred male of 

 P. colchicus can be found in England ; even in specimens wliich appear to be 

 pure bred at tlie lirst glance (that is, in those whioh liave no trace of a white 

 ring), tlie subterniiual green bar of 1'. rorgvatiis is iisiinlly more cv less deve- 

 loped on the feathers of the lower bnfk, and llie basal part of the oenti-.d tail- 

 feathers is rather widely barred with black. 



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