M6. CHRYSOLOPHUS. 339 



chestiuif, mixed with black, barred and tipped with white. Total 

 length about ',i2 inches, wing 9, tail 1(5-0, tarsus 2-5. 



//lib. Mountains of Northern and Western China, as far east as 

 Kiu-kiang. 



a, b. S ad. sk. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 

 et 5 >'>d. St. (Types of the species.) 



c. cJ <id. sk. China. Hardwicke Bequest. 



d,e. c? $ ad. sk. China. Gould Coll. 



/. Jad. sk. Argyllshire, March. A. Miller, Esq. [P.]. 



fl. Juv. at. England. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



h. c? ad. St. Norfolk. H.R.H. Prince of Wales 



[P.]. 

 .1. J. St 



t. 2 skeleton. China. .1. J. Stone, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Imperfect skel. China. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



For Hyhrid between Phasianus colchicus and P. reevesi, see p. 324. 



Hybrid between Phasianus reevesi and Chrj-solophus pictus. 



a. (S ad. st. Devonshire. Ralph Sanders, Esq. [P.]. 



b, c. (S inim. st. Zoological Gardens. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



3r>. CHRYSOLOPHUS. 



Type. 

 Thaumalea, 1] agl. {nee Riithe, Dipt. 1831) Isis, 1832, 



p. 1227 C. pictus. 



Chrvsolophus, J. E. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 41. fig. 2 



(1833-4) C. pictus. 



Epomia, Hodgn. in Grai/s Zool. Misc. p. 8.5 (1844) . . C. amherstiae. 



Tail composed of IS feathers, vaulted, the middle pair very long, 

 more than four times as long as the outermost pair, which are short. 



1st primary much shorter than the 2nd, which is rather shorter 

 than the 10th, the 5th being slightly the longest. 



Tarsus rather longer than the middle toe and claw, and generally 

 armed in the male with a pair of short spurs. 



Male with a full crest of hairy feathers, and a capo-like develop- 

 ment of erectile, squarely truncate feathers. 



Ranye. Mountains of Eastern Thibet and Western and Southern 

 China. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Breast crimson-scarlet. 



a. Middle pair of tail-feathers black, with rounded 



spots of pale brown pictus, p. 339. 



b. Middle pair of tnil-feathers obliquely striped 



with black and light brown obscurus, p. 341. 



B. Breast pure white amherstiee, p. 342. 



1 . Chrysolophus pictus. 



Red Pheasant Cock fitmi Cliina, .ll/iin, Xai. Hist. B. iii. p. 34, 



pi. xxxvi. (1740). 

 Pauited Pheasant from China, Edtc. Nat. Hist. B. ii. pi. 68 (1747). 

 Piia.*ianus aureus sinensis, Briss. Om. i. p. 271 (1760). 

 Phasianus pictus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 272 (1766) ; Gm. iS. N. i. pt. ii. 



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