324 PHASIANID.E. 



ITyhrid between P. eolchicus and P. versicolor. 



a,h. (^ ad.sk. (1st cross).") 



c. (S ad. sk. (2nd cross). ^ England. Gould Coll. 



d. (S ad. sk. (3rd cross). ) 



«)/• 6 9 ad. St. England. Gould and Zool. Soc. 



Colls. 



Hybrid between P. eolchicus and P. reevesi. 



a. d ad. St. Suffolk, Dec. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



b-e. c? imm. et pull. st. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



Hybrid between P. eolchicus and Chrysolophus pictus. 



a. 2 ad. St. England. Dr. Thackeray [P.]. 



b. S ad. St. England. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



c. c? ad. St. England. Purchased. 



d. Skeleton. 



Hybrid between P. eolchicus and Gallus domesticus (Spanish Fowl). 

 a, b. Ad. sk. et st. England. Mr. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



Hybrid between Catreus wallichi and Phasianus eolchicus. See p. 318. 



Hybrid between Gennseus muthura and Phasianus eolchicus. 

 See p. 302. 



Subsp. o. Phasianus talischensis. 



? Phasianus eolchicus, Blanf.E. Fersia, ii. p. 272 (1876) [Mazan- 



daran and Gurgan]. 

 Phasianus persicus talischensis, Lorenz, J.f. 0. 1888, p. 571 [Talisch]. 

 Phasianus eolchicus, Eadde S)- Walt. Ornis, 1889, p. 90 [Talisch.] 



Adult male. Differs from typical P. eolchicus and resembles 

 P. persicus in having the middle of the breast amd sides of the belly 

 purplish carmine and the chest and upper breast narrowly margined 

 with purple. It differs from P. persicus and resembles P. eolchicus 

 in the colour of the wing-coverts, which are reddish sandy brown 

 instead of nearly white. 



Adidt female. Does not differ from the female of P. eolchicus. 



Hab. Talisch, south-west shore of the Caspian Sea. It is 

 probably also the bird that extends through Mazandaran to the 

 Gurgan River. 



a, b. cT 2 ad. sk. Alazan Eiver, Trans- St. Petersburg Museum 



cauca.sia. [E.]. 



2. Phasianus persicus. 



Phasianus persicus, Sererfz. Bull. Mosc. xlviii. pt. 3, p. 208 (1875) 

 [S.E. Caspian]; id. J.f. O. 1875, p. 225; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 495; 

 JSogd. Coni^p. Av. Ross. i. p. 19 (1884) [Ashourada & Peninsula of 



