TIIK Tl^UE PIll'ASANTS. 2Cj 



range. In Western Szc-chuen, Mr. Pratt met with this species 

 on the grassy slopes on the spurs of the mountains up to an 

 elevation of about 9,000 feet. He observed that it avoided the 

 forest regions, ahvays preferring the brushwood, and that in con- 

 finement it invariably roosted on the ground. We can find 

 no other notes referring to this species, but no doubt its habits 

 are generally similar to those of I*, iorquatus^ of which it is the 

 south-western representative. 



X[II. STRAUCUS PHEASANT. PHASIANUS STRAUCHI. 



PhasiaiiHs .f//-*?//*;-///, Trjevalsky, Mongol, ii. pt. 2, p. 119, pi. 



xvii. (1876) ; id. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 417 



(1877); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 330 



(1893). 



Adult Male. — Easily distinguished from the males of both 



P. elegaus and P vlcmgalii by having the chest and sides 



of the breast fiefj ora?ige-red with narrow, complete, dark 



purplish-green margins instead of dark green ; from the 



former it is further distinguished by having the middle of 



the scapulars whitish-lmff freckled with black next the shaft, 



and from the latter by the margins of these feathers being 



IndiiDi-red. Total length, 36*5 inches; wing, 9-4; tail, 23-3; 



tarsus, 2 '5. 



Adult Female. — Upper-parts much like those of P. cokhicus, 

 but the feathers of the nape and mantle are indistinctly tipped 

 with dark green, instead of violet and purple ; the under- 

 partsare whitish buff barred with black, the bars on the flanks 

 having some green gloss. Total length, 23-5 inches; wing, 

 8'i ; tail, 12*5 ; tarsus, 2-2. 



Range. — Nortli-western Kansu. 



Habits. — Prjevalsky, who originally discovered and named 

 this very handsome species says: — *' The bird inhabits the 

 wooded parts of the Kansu Mountains, up to an absolute 



