576 Mr. S. A. Buturlin on 



traces of a white collar^ and therefore compared his 

 Min-tschou specimen with what he named "P. torquatus.^' 

 Messrs. Alpheraky and Bianchi quite justly point out that 

 the presence or absence of the collar is a very variable feature 

 in large series of P. strauchi, but that white or whitish 

 eyebrows is a more reliable character : it is always quite 

 absent in western forms (P. vlangalii, P. strauchi, P. decol- 

 latus, P. elegans, &c.), but always present, if only in slight 

 traces, in more eastern forms (P. satscheuensis, P. alpherakyi, 

 P. gmelini, P. formosanus, &c.) . 



In my paper on the Pheasants {' Ibis/ 1904, p. 407) I was 

 led by its description and figure to wrongly identify with 

 "' P. holdereri " two birds of the St, Petersburg Museum 

 (from Kuku-Kliota and from Uliassutai). But these two 

 birds actually belong to P. kiangsuensis, as the differences 

 between them (shades of rump-colouring, wing-coverts, and 

 nape) and the North-east Chinese Pheasant seem to be only 

 individual. Besides " P. torquatus var. C " of David and 

 Oustalet, which I took to be synonymous with "P. holdereri" 

 may be P. decollatus berezowskii. 



6. Phasianus strauchi soHOKHOTENSis, nov. subsp. 



{Kozlovs Pheasant.) 



P. decollatus strauchi : 1906, Bianchi, Bull. Ac. Sc. St. 



Pot. V. ser. xxiv. t. n. 1 & 2, p. 90 (in Russ.) (pt. : " var. 



from Soho-choto ad ped. sept. jug. Nan-Schan ") ; 1908, 



Alpheraky and Bianchi, 1. c. p. 448 (pt.) (nee Przew.). 



Phasianus strauchi sohokhotensis P. strauchi similis, uro- 

 pygio olivascente-cyaneo plumis fihformibus extimis 

 aurantiacis, superciliis albicantibus nullis, jugulo medio 

 non viridi, parte anteriore interscapulii seneo-rubra, 

 sirigis apicalibus triangularibus raetallice nigris angustis 

 ornata, — sed lateribus corporis aureo-rufis (vel aureo- 

 ferrugineis), non aeneo-rubris, maculis nigris apicalibus 

 angustioribus distinguendus ; in oase Soho-Choto ad 

 urbera Tshen-fan in parte meridionali deserti Alas- 

 chanici januario 1900 a cl. P. K. Kozlow lectus. 

 Kozlow's Pheasant differs from typical P. strauchi in 



having paler sides to the body, with the dark apical bands 



of the feathers of these parts not occupying all the width of 



