586 Mr. S. A. Buturlin on 



Characters of the Adult Males of the 

 Blue-and-Green-headed Pheasants. 



I. Middle of the rump and of tlie upper tail-coverts of 

 a coppery red or rusty orange or buff ground- 

 colour, though sometimes tinged with green or 

 glossed with oily green (dark bars on basal half of 

 tail mostly, not always, very nan'ow, about 2 mm. 

 — 0"1 in. — or less). 

 A. Scapulars scaled, as on many of these feathers, 

 inner creamy or pale butf pattern variegated with 

 black and divided by a black U-shaped line from 

 the coppery-red or Indian-red margin is plainly 

 visible (never white collared; rump coppery 

 red ; chest- and breast-feathers margined with 

 bluish or greenish black). 

 a. Lesser and median wing-coverts sandy brown ; 

 mantle, breast, and flanks darker, more rufes- 

 cent golden. 

 a. Chest-feathers only rounded and leas emar- 

 ginated, their black margins much wider 

 than 1 mm. (0'04 inch), even up to 2- 

 2i mm. (0-1 in.). 

 a', lielly blackish brown, always margined 

 above with glossy dark green or blue- 

 green. 

 a . Black markings of mantle and breast 

 with greenish gloss ; general colouring 

 somewhat paler, more golden red .... septentrionalis. 

 )3'. Black markings of mantle and breast 

 with blue or violet gloss prevailing; 

 general colouring somewhat darker, 



mure coppery red eolchicus. 



h'. Belly chocolate - brown (and margined 



above with glossy coppery red in typical 



birds of Kara Valley, but with glossy 



greenish in some birds from Alaschan) . . lorenzi. 



l3. Chest-feathers somewhat more pointed and 



more deeply emarginated, their black 



margin narrower than or about 1 mm. 



(0'04 inch) (belly margined above with 



glossy coppery red) taliscliensis. 



b. Lesser and median wing-coverts buffy white ; 

 back, flanks, and breast with more golden- 

 yellow ground-colour (belly edged above 



