35. I'HASIANUS. 325 



Potemkine] ; Seehohm, llm, 1887, p. 170 ; Moizb. Ibis, 1887, p. ^02 

 [Atrak, Sumbar, & Chaudir Itivers]; ISharpe, Tr. Linn. Hoc. (2) 

 Zool. V. p. 80 (1889) [13auder-i-ghaz] ; Eaddit ^- Walt. Oniis, 1889, 

 pp. 89-96, 170, 180 [Traiiscaspia] ; Zaroudn. Bull. Mosc. 1889, 

 p. 812. 

 Phasianus shawi, Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 132. 



Adult male, llcsembles F. colcliicus in general plnmage and in 

 having the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts glossed with 

 purplish lake. It ditl'ers in having the lesser and median wing- 

 coverts nearly white; the black burs on the tail scarcely half as 

 wide ; the chest and breast-feathers glossed with purplish lake and 

 their dark purple margins much narrower, and the middle of the 

 breast and sides of the belly purplish carmine. Total length 

 35 inches, wing 9-3, tail 19-5, tarsus 2-8. 



Adult female. Closely resembles the female of P. cohhicu^. 



Hah. Valleys of Atrak, Sumbar, and Chandir llivers, South-east 

 Caspian, Ashourada Is., and the peninsula of Potemkine. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Atrak 11., Transcaspia, Purchased. 



March. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Suinb.ar R., Transcaspia St. Petersburg Museum 



{Grum-Grzimailo). [E.]. 



c. (S iniui. sk. Astrabad Market, Oct. Afghan Delim. Com. [P.]. 



[Aitchison), 



3. Phasianus principalis. 



Phasianus principalis, Sdat. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 322, pi. xxii. [Bala 

 Murghab, N.W. Afgliauistan], 1887, p. 502; Menzb. Ibis, 1SS7, 

 p. yOl [Murghab, Tejend, & l)ushak Rivers, & Kaakiik Dist.]; 

 Hculli/, M. ^- B. N. Afiihan. p. 86 (1887) ; 8eebohm, Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 171; Srlat.Ibis,im), p. 584 [Upper Muvghabl; Shm-pe, Tr. 

 Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 86, pi. vii. (1889) ; Radde ^- Walt. Ornis, 



1889, pp. 89, no, 170, 180; Zaroudn.* Bull. Mosc. 1889, p. 813, 



1890, ]). 309 [Streams from Daragez & Kalat Mts.]. 



Phasianus komarowii, Bof/d. Bull. Petersb. xxx. p. 356 (1886) 

 [Aschabad]; id. Mel. Biol. xii. p. 319 (1886) ; Zaroudn. Bull. 

 Mosc. ixi. p. 322 (1886) [Tchirin-Ichai & Kizil-Kan, tributaries 

 of Atrek R.]. 



Adult male bears the same relationship to P.persicus that P. chri/- 

 .loiiielas bears to P. shawi. It difiers from the former in having no 

 jiurple-lako gloss on the lower back, rump, and ujjpcr tail-coveits, 

 which are orange-red, the chest and breast widely tipi^ed with i)ur- 

 ]dish-red bronze, and the flank-feathers widely tipped with dark 

 greenish purple. Total length 35-5 inches, wing U-l, tail l^l'o, 

 tarsus 2'7. 



Adult female ver)" similar to the female of P. chriisomelas. 



Hah. North-western Afghanistan and North-east Persia. 



* Zaroiidnoi says that specimens o{ P. principalis from Tejend River differ 

 from the Murghab birds in iiaving tho feathers of iho sides and flanks tipped 

 willi creeiiish blue iiistfad of |iurplish blue, thus showing an approueh to 

 7*. chri^fomflu,' from the Amu Uaryu. 



