the True Pheasants. 583 



eyebrows is also to some extent due to abrasion of the 

 feathering. And, lastly^ the shades of nape-colouring also 

 seera to present no well-defined line of demarcation. 



I may add that in the Ordos specimens of Col. Pewzow — 

 types of my P. schensinensis and P. holdereri — the chest- 

 feathers are conspicuously, though very narrowly, margined 

 with black, and in Radde^s specimen — type of my P. hiang- 

 suensis (which I still presume to be of Kalgan origin) — these 

 margins are nearly obsolete. But as other Kalgan specimens 

 examined by myself in Mr. Alpheraky^s collection possess 

 these margins, the character seems to be of no value in this 

 form also. 



Therefore in this group of Pheasants we must now admit 

 two forms : the more southern P. gmelini, having the 

 '' mantle and flanks golden-yellow " Q Ibis,^ 1 904, p. 384) 

 (" coloribus corporis valde pallidioribus,^' ib. p. 409), and 

 the more northern P. kiangsuensis of N.E. Ordos and 

 Kalgan, with the "mantle and flanks golden-orange" ('Ibis,' 

 1904, p. 384) C coloribus corporis iutensis," ib. p. 408). 

 Messrs. Alpheraky and Bianchi have given to this form a 

 new name " P. jjeivzowi/^ based on the Ordos specimens of 

 Col. Pewzow, identical, as they admit, Avitli Kalgan birds, 

 and I am very sorry that this much more appropriate name 

 must be rejected on the ground of priority. 



10. Phasianus KARPOwi BUTURLiNi. (TsusMma Pheasant.) 



P. torquatus : 1882, Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. 

 Jap. X. p. 137 (nee Gm.). 



P. karpowi buturlini : 1907, Austin H. Clark, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxii. p. 468. 



This bird is based on a single male specimen obtained on 

 May 21st, 1885, by the late P. L. Jouy, on the island of 

 Tsushima in the Korean Straits. It was compared with a 

 good series (seven males) of true P. km'powi from Korea 

 (Corea), and is said to differ in having paler mantle and 

 flanks, broader superciliaries, more greyish rump, more olive 

 and less yellowish central rectrices not so heavily barred 

 toward the tips, and slightly shorter and more arched bill. 



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