8 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche 07i the [Tbis, 



violet fringes and has rather narrow bar.-*. The bird weighed 

 only If Ib.^ but was in good condition. Dissection showed 

 one testis and wliat looks like a diseased ovary. The parts 

 have been preserved in spirit. Culmen ()"90in., wing 

 8"60in;^ tarsus 285 in. Tlierc are no spurs. 



The tliiid bird, which was sent to nie by my collector 

 after I had left Chinvvangtao, is labelled a male, but it is 

 of the size of a female, without spurs. There are traces of 

 female plumage on the head and upper parts and the deep 

 yellow tiank-feathers are plain. 



188. Phasianus colchiciis pallasi Rothschild. 



An example from Chihfeug in north Chihli, a locality 

 adjoining the Gobi desert and about 190 miles as the crow 

 flies noi'th of Chinwangtao, has pale bufiish-red scapulars, 

 the back very blue-grey, the collar moderately broad, a white 

 ear-spot, the central and the next two pairs of rectrices with 

 a small terminal white spot, and the tail nnich washed with 

 grc\-. Two other examples from tlje same place, however, 

 are much the same as Chinwangtao birds except that they 

 have the eyebrow much more developed. A female is much 

 paler than that of P. karpoivi. The Chihfeug country is 

 probably on the southern limit of P. c. pallasi. I am much 

 indebted for these specimens to JNlr. A. L. Hall, who kindly 

 sent me some by post and brought down others himself. 



189. Pucrasia xanthospila Gray. 



Pucrasia .canthospila D. & O. p. 407, pi. 104. 



The North Ciiina Pueras Pheasant is occasionally found 

 in the Shanhaikuan and (Jhinwangtao markets. I have 

 seen one or two males nearly every winter in the latter 

 market and two females; one of the females was said to 

 have been brought from a locality which is about sixty miles 

 to tiie north of Chinwangtao. This Pheasant ajiparently is 

 not found in the near vicinity of Chinwangtao, but only in 

 the wooded country at least thirty miles north of the port. 



Reevess IMieusant {Sijrntaticus reevcsii) occurs in the 

 mountains surrounding the Imperial Tombs (Tung Ling) 



