the True Pheasants. 581 



always distinguish it from P. strauchi and the P. decollatus 

 group, as in this last group — as proved by large series of 

 P. strauchi in the St. Petersburg Museum — the collar is 

 occasionally just as well developed (though never to such a 

 degree) as in P. gmelini, P. karpoivi, &c. 



9. Phasianus gmelini kiangsuensis. {North-east Chinese 

 Pheasant.) 



P. holdereri kiangsuensis : 1904, Buturlin, Ibis, pp. 383, 

 407 (Kalgan spec). 



P. holdereri : 1904, Buturlin, 1. c. p. 406 (pt., Kuku- 

 Khota and Uliassutai specimens; nee Sclialow, 1901). 



P. schensinensis : 1905, Buturlin, Psovaia i Ruzheinaia 

 Okhota, Febr., p. 50 (in Russian) (ex litt.) (Kuhu-Khota 

 and Uliassutai spec.) . 



P. gmelini pewzowi : 1908, Alpheraky and Bianchi, 1. c. 

 p. 456 (Kuku-Khota and Kalgan spec). 



When treating the bright-coloured narrow-collared 

 Pheasant of North-eastern China in my previous paper I 

 made several mistakes, as has been justly pointed out by 

 Messrs. Alpheraky and Bianchi. 



My first mistake was in tracing the geographical limit 

 between the bright-coloured northern P. kiangsuensis and 

 the pale-coloured southern P. gmelini. My type specimens 

 of P. gmelini came from Foo-chow in Fo-kien, Southern 

 China, and P. kiangsuensis was described by me from Kalgan 

 specimens in Northern China (Dr. Radde's specimens were 

 actually examined by me^ and Mr. Lorenz's specimens were 

 quite correctly described by him for me in litt.). From the 

 wide stretch of country between these localities (about 15°) 

 I had no specimens, and from the description of Shanghai 

 specimens I erroneously admitted them to belong to the 

 bright northern race. But Messrs. Alpheraky and Bianchi 

 were able, through the kindness of Mr. Rothschild and 

 Dr. Hartert, to examine several specimens from Shanghai 

 and Ching-kiang, and found them to belong to the pale 

 southern race — and I concur in this opinion, as I have now 

 examined these birds mvself. Therefore the limit between 



