338 PHASIANID^. 



Gall p. 24 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 497 (1845) ; Sdat. S,- Wolf, 

 Zool. Sket. 2. pi. 33 (1861) : Sdat. List of Fhas. p. 5, pi. 1 (1863) 

 [North & Central China] ■ Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 307 ; Saurin, 

 P. Z. S. 1866, p. 437 [Chi-li] ; David, N. Arch. Mus. Pull. iii. p. 37 

 (1867) [near Toung-Liu] ; Gray, List Gallinee Brit. Mus. p. 28 

 (1867) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 33 (1869) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 

 p. 258 (1870) ; David, N.Arch. Mus. Bull. vii. p. 11 (1871) [Pekin, 

 Sze-chiien] ; Blliot, Monoq. Phas. ii. pi. xi. [text] (1872) ; David 

 ^ Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 413 (1877) [Mts. N. & E. of Pekin & 

 between Shen-se, Honan, and Sze-chuen] ; Pavensw. Tr. N. Durh. 

 vii. pt. 1, p. 168 (1878) ; Creaph, Ibis, 1886, p. 382 ; Styan, Ibis, 

 1891, pp. 329, 499 [Lower Yan^tse]. 



Phasianus veneratus, Tettitn. PI. Col. v. pi. 5 [no. 485] (1830) ; Less. 

 Traits d'Orn. p. 496 (1831) ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. pi. xvi. 

 (1834). 



Syrmaticus reevesii, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1229 ; Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 398. 



Syrmaticns superbus, Strickl. Ann. Mag. N. H. vii. p. 36 (1841). 



Adult male. Crown white, with some of the longer feathers 

 narrowly tipped with black and surrounded by a wide black baud, 

 which crosses the forehead, lores, ear-coverts, and nape ; a white 

 patch below the eye ; chin, throat, and nape white, edged below by 

 a black ring which surrounds the neck ; neck, mantle, lower back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and scapulars cinnamon, each feather 

 bordered with black, giving these parts a scale-like appearance ; 

 wing-coverts white, widely margined and centred with black ; 

 primary-quills and coverts dark brown, mottled, especially on the 

 outer web, with rufous buff; secondaries brownish black, irregularly 

 barred with white and margined round the extremity or tipped 

 with buff; chest-feathers black and white like the wing-coverts, 

 but with wide chestnut margins, those of the sides and flanks with 

 the terminal part buff; belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts black ; 

 central tail-feathers with the middle white, barred with black and 

 chestnut, and margined on either side with brownish buff; outer- 

 most tail-feathers buff, narrowly tipped with black. Total length 

 about 6 feet 6 inches, wing 10"3 inches, tail 5 feet, tarsus 3'1 inches. 

 Adult female. Crown of the head reddish brown, ear-coverts 

 blackish brown with pale rufous-buff centres ; rest of the head, chin, 

 throat, and upper part of neck buff; lower part of neck and upper 

 mantle rufous, mottled or blotched with black and tipped with 

 rufous grey ; a well-marked white patch or shaft-stripe down the 

 centre of each feather ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 mottled with rufous buff and grey, and with black centre stripes ; 

 wing-coverts and scapulars somewhat like the mantle, but with buff 

 instead of white stripes down the middle; quills and their coverts 

 dark brown barred with rufous, some of the secondaries and their 

 coverts tipped with buff; chest, upper breast, and sides che-'^tnut, 

 mottled with black and tipped with buff, each feather, especially 

 those on the chest, with a trident-shaped white mark near the 

 extremity ; belly and rest of underparts mostly pale buff; centre 

 tail-feathers mottled with sandy-buff and black, and with indistinct 

 black blotches along the basal half of the shaft ; outer feathers 



