THE TRUE PHEASANTS. 17 
siderable numbers in the tamarisk and grass jungle growing 
in the bed of the river. More than four hundred were killed 
on the march of thirty miles up this river. It not only wades 
through the water in trying to make from one point of vantage 
to another, but swims, and seems to be quite at home in these 
thickets, where there is always water to the depth of two or 
three feet. These swampy localities afford good shelter. In 
the mornings and evenings the Pheasants leave it for the more 
open and dry country, where they pick up their food. I 
believe the same species is found on the Hari-rud river, but 
I have seen no specimens from that locality.” 
IV. THE ZERAFSHAN PHEASANT. PHASIANUS ZERAFSHANICUS, 
Phastanus serafshanicus, Tarnovski, Field, Ixxvii. p. 409 
(1891); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 326 
(1893). 
Phastanus klossovskit, Tarnoyski, Field, Ixxvii. p. 409 (1891). 
Phastanus tarnovskit, Seebohm, P. Z.S. 1892, p. 271. 
Adult Male-—Closely allied to the male of P. principalis, but 
the scapulars are zo¢ margined with dark greenish-purple, and 
the breast-feathers have zarvrow heart-shaped purplish margins, 
much as in P, persicus. 
Range.—Zarafshan Valley. 
Lieutenant G. Tarnovski writes :—‘ Mr. Klossovski, who 
had resided in Katta-Koorgan for thirteen years, informed me 
that Pheasants had made their appearance in the district of 
Katta-Koorgan (where we were shooting) about 1883, and that 
they had immigrated from the Bokharian dominions, probably 
from the Kara-Kul lakes and reeds (the Zarafshan does not 
reach the Amu-Warya, but is lost in the sands of Kara-Kul), 
whence they were driven forth by the invasion of the Kisil- 
Koom sands, which gradually bury the western part of Bok- 
hara under their hills. 
“At present this Pheasant steadily moves up the Zarafshan. 
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