2S ALLEN'S NATURALLST'S LIBRARY'. 



and breast darker and more distinct. Only the type specimen, 

 however, has been examined. 



Range. — The Island of Formosa. 



Habits — Swinhoe reports the habits of this species as similar 

 to those of its Chinese ally, and says that it affords excellent 

 sport, being particularly numerous. 



With no ivhite ring round the neck, or only traces of one. 



XIL THE CHINESE RINGLESS PHEASANT. PHASIANUS 

 DECOLLATUS. 



Phasianiis decollatus, Swinhoe, P Z. S. 1870, p. 135; Elliot, 

 Monogr. Phasian. ii.pl. vii. (1872); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 331 (1893). 



Adult Male. — Very similar to the male of/*, iorquatus^ but the 

 white ring surrounding the neck is absent in typical examples, 

 though, where the ranges of the two birds approach one 

 another (for example at the Ichang Gorge), examples of the 

 present species show traces of a white ring, some of the feathers 

 on the hind-neck being banded with white. It further differs 

 in having the crown of the head dark green instead of pale 

 bronze-green, and the margins to the chest-feathers ninch 

 broader and dark-green instead of purple. Total length, 34 

 inches; wing, 9*2; tail, i8'5 ; tarsus, 2'8. 



Adult Female. — Most like the female of P. stranchi, but the 

 black patches, especially those on the scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 and lower back, are larger and nioi^e strongly marked ; and the 

 ground-colour of tlie mantle is darker chestnut. Total length, 

 25 inches ; wing, 8'i; tail, io"5 ; tarsus, 2'^. 



Range. — Western China, extending from Western Yunnan, 

 northwards to Southern Shen-si, eastwards to the Sin-ling 

 Mountains, and southwards to Western Quei-chow. 



Habits. — Of all the True Pheasants this is perhaps tlie rarest 

 in collections, though common enough in many parts of its 



