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Adult Female-—Closely resembles the female of P. colchicus. 
Range.—South-east of the Caspian Sea, Ashourada Island, 
and the Peninsula of Potemkin; extending to the east, along 
the valleys of the Atrak, Sumbar, and Chandir Rivers. 
Ill. THE PRINCE OF WALES’ PHEASANT. © PHASIANUS 
PRINCIPALIS, 
Phasianus principahs, Sclater, P. Z. 5. 1885, p. 322, pl xxi. 
Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 86, pl. vii. (1889) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B.. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 325 (1893). 
Phasianus komarowi, Bogd. Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xxx. p. 
356 (1886). 
Adult Male—May be easily distinguished by having the white 
wing-coverts of P. ferszcws, but, unlike that species, the rump is 
bronze-red, and practically there is zo purple-lake gloss on the — 
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; the feathers of the 
chest and breast are dvoad/y tipped with purplish-red bronze, and 
the flank-feathers are broadly tipped with dark purplish-green. 
Total length, 35°5 inches; wing, 9°4 ; tail, 21°5;. tarsus, 2-7: 
Adult Female—Much paler than the female of P. colchicus 
and P. persicus, the ground-colour of the feathers of the mantle 
being paler rufous, and the general colour of the rest of the 
plumage fale sandy-bujf. Itis extremely similar to the female 
of P. chrysomelas, from the Amu-Darya, described below, having 
the black spots on the middle of the chest-feathers more 
strongly marked than in the other allied species. 
Range.—North-western Afghanistan and north-east Persia. 
Habits—This extremely handsome species was first dis- 
covered in 1884 by the members of the Afghan Delimita- 
tion Commission, and Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison, the naturalist 
attached to the Expedition, prepared some beautiful skins. 
He informs us that ‘‘the specimens of this Pheasant were all got 
on the banks of the Bala-Morghab, where it occurs in con- 
