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breast are bronzy orange-red glossed with purple-carmine in one 

 light, and green in the other ; the rump is dark maroon, strongly 

 glossed with green, shading into purple ; the throat is pu?plish 

 brojizy-red ; the breast- and flank- feathers are tipped laifh very 

 dark green ; and the middle of the breast and sides of the belly 

 2iXQ dark green. It is, moreover, rather a large bird. Total length, 

 36*5 inches ; wing, 9'6 ; tail, 22; tarsus, 2"8. 



Adult Female. — Much like the female of P. chrysoinelas, but 

 there is a black spot near the extremity of each feather of tlie 

 upper mantle and a black bar across the middle^ instead of a 

 broad black sub-marginal border. Total lengtli, 26 inches ; 

 wing, 8-5; tail, 12-3; tarsus, 2-5. 



Range. — From the valley of the Syr-Darya across the basin of 

 Lake Balkash as far east as Lake Saisan and the valley of the 

 Black Irtish, and southwards to the valley of the Hi and Issik- 

 Kul 



We can find no notes of importance on the habits of this 

 truly splendid Pheasant. 



SUB-SP. a. SEVERTZOV'S RING-NECKED PHEASANT. PHASIANUS 



SEMITORQUATUS. 



Phasianus semitorquatus, Severtz. Ibis, 1875, P- 49^^ Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 329 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Very similar to the male of P. mongolicus, but, 

 when skins of the two birds are placed side by side, it will be 

 seen that the mantle, rump, throat, chest, and upper breast 

 of the present bird are glossed with dull oily green, instead 

 of purple-carmine, and the white ring is more widely inter- 

 rupted on the fore-part of the neck. 



Adult Female. — Very similar to the female of P. mongolicus. 



Range. — Dzungaria ; in the vicinity of Ebi-nor, Kuldja, 

 Urumtsi, and Gutchen. 



Nothing is recorded concerning the habits of this species, 

 but they probably do not differ much from those of the allied 



