574 Mr. S. A. Buturlin on 



3. Phasianus mongolicus. (Kirghiz Pheasant.) 



P. mongolicus Brandt, Bull. Ac. Sc. S. Pet. iii. p. 51 (1844). 



P. semitorquatus : 1875, Sewertzow, Ibis, 1875, p. 491. 



P. mongolicus semitorquatus Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 396. 



P. mongolicus mongolicus : 1908, Alpheraky and Bianclii, 

 Ann. Mus. Zool. Ac. St. Petersb. xii, p. 443. 



Messrs. Alpheraky and Bianchi point out that " P. semi- 

 torquatus" of Dr. Sewertzow is based on a skin of a not 

 quite adult and badly prepared bird, but that other specimens 

 from Dzungaria are in all respects identical with the birds 

 of the Central Tian-shan and of the basins of the Issyk-kul, 

 Balkhash, Ala-kul, and Zaisan-nor, though of course different 

 from P. turcestanicus of the Syr-daria basin. 



I accept [tacito consensu) this view of the latest investi- 

 gators, until I am able to compare a good series of these 

 birds from different localities. 



4. Phasianus suehschanensis. {Sze-chuan Pheasant.) 

 P. suehschanensis: 1906, Bianchi, Bull. Ac. I. Sc. St. 

 Petersb. v. ser. t. xxiv. n. 1-2, p. 83 ; 1908, Alpheraky and 

 Bianchi, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pet. xii. p. 446. 



This species was discovered by M. M. Berezowsky at Sung- 

 panin Siieh-shan, Northern Sze-chuan (Sz^tschwan). A pair 

 (c?, 7/19 May, 1894; ? , 17/29 June, 1894) is in the Aca- 

 demical Museum of St. Petersburg, while the third specimen, 

 a male, was procured by the Hon. W. Rothschild. 



The bird was described and named under the impression 

 that P. elegans Ell. presents a scaled appearance of the 

 scapulars, as in P. decollatus Swinh. and P. straucM Przev. 

 (and many others), from the inner buffy V- or U-shaped band 

 being externally visible on most of these feathers, whereas in 

 Sungpan specimens the scapulars when in natural position 

 present a uniform general aspect as in P. vlangalii Przev. 

 or P. tarimensis Pleske. The chest and middle of the breast 

 of this bird is metallic green, as in P. vlangalii Przev. and 

 P. elegans Ell., and the general colouring rich coppery-chest- 

 nut, resembling that of P. strauchi Przev. and P. elegans Ell. 

 Now Mr. H. E. Dresser has sent me, with his usual 



