35. PHAsrANtrs. 337 



black ; wing-coverts and scapulars similar, but of a more cinnamou- 

 coloiircd tint and with more strongly marked buff shaft-stripes ; 

 lower back and rum]) sand)' rufous, finely mottled with black and 

 with black shaft-stripes ; quills very similar to those of the male; 

 chin, throat, and fore part of neck pale butf, each feather tipped with 

 black ; chest-feathers greyish rufous, paler on the breast and undcr- 

 l)arts, and all with the basal part black ; upper tail-coverts and 

 middle pair of tail-feathers chestnut or rufous, indistinctly mottled 

 with black, and paler towards the margins ; outer tail-feathers 

 chestnut tii)ped with white, and with a subterrainal black band. 

 Total length 21 inches, wing 8"1, tail 7".5, tarsus 2-1. 

 J I ah. Japanese islands of Hondo and Kiu-siu. 



a. (S ad. st. Japan. Leyden Mus'^um [P.]. 



l>,c. *(S 2 *<1. St. Japan. Purchased. 



d. 2 (I'd. sk. Japan. Tweeddale Coll. 



e. $ ad. St. Nagasaki. II. Whitely [C.]. 

 .A .'/• d" ? ad. sk. Nagasaki. Gould Coll. 



h-k. Skeletons. Japan. Purchased. 



A marked variety of tliis species has been named P. sriiitilla»s by 

 Gould. The male differs from the typical male of P. siemmerrbigi 

 in having most of the feathers of the wing-coverts, back, and 

 especially the rump margined on either side with a white black- 

 edged band instead of with fiery gold ; while the lighter parts of 

 the tail-feathers below the black cross-bars are usuallypaler and often 

 strongly dotted with ])lack. This form cannot possibly be regarded as 

 a distinct species, for it not only occurs in the same islands where 

 P. strminerrini/i is found, but every intermediate stage between the 

 two forms may be seen. 



The following synonymy belongs to this variety : — 



Phasianus (Graphophasianus) scintillans, Gould, Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) 

 xvii. p. l.")0 (1866) [Yokohama] ; id. B. Asia, vii. pi. 38 (1867) ; 

 Seelwhm, II. Jap. p. 371 (1^00) [Hondo]. 



Phasianus scenimerringii, var. scintillans, Elliot, Monop. Phas. ii. 

 pi. xiii. [text] (1872) [Nagasaki]. 



a. (^ ad. St. Japan. Walter Langley, Esq. [P.]. 



l>. (J ad. sk. Japan. Tweeddale Coll. 



c. (J nd. sk. Japan. (iould Coll. 



f^ *• (5 2 ad. .sk. Hondo Is., Japan. Purchased. 



20. Phasianus reevesi. 



t Phasianus supeibus, Vicil/. {/ur Linn.) .Y. Diet, d' IIi.it. Xat. xi. 



p. 40 (1817) ; Jard. Xat. Li/,., Oni. iv. p. L>02 (1834;; Lamprey, 



P. Z. S. 1862, p. 220 "N.E. of J'ekin]. 

 Par-tailed Pheasiint. Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 106. pi. cxxiv. (1823). 

 Phasianu.s reevesii, .7. E. Gnu/, in Griff, ed. Cm: iii. p. 2o (1820); id. 



III. hid. Zool. i. pi. 30 (1830-32) ; G. R. Gray, List of B. pt. iii. 



* Intermediate, showing au approach to the variety P. sciiitillan.i. 



t I'hfi.iiamts siipcrhiis, Linn. Mantissa, p. 52l> (17G7-71), described from a 

 Chinese drawing, cannot be identified : it is probiiblv some domestic variety of 

 fialtus donifi'ticiK. and rertainly has notliing to do with P. reevesi, to which it 

 ha« been referred. 



