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breast are bronzy orange-red glossed with purple-carmine in one 
light, and green in the other ; the rump is dark maroon, strongly 
glossed with green, shading into purple ; the throat is purplish 
bronzy-red ; the breast- and flank-feathers are “pped with very 
dark green ; and the middle of the breast and sides of the belly 
are dark green. It is, moreover, rather a large bird. ‘Total length, 
36°5 inches ; wing, 9°6; tail, 22; tarsus, 2°8. 
Adult Female—Much like the female of P. chrysomelas, but 
there is a black spot near the extremity of each feather of the 
upper mantle and a black bar across the middle, instead of a 
broad black sub-marginal border. ‘Total length, 26 inches ; 
wing, 8°5; tail, 12°35 tarsus, 2°5. 
Range.—F rom the valley of the Syr-Darya across the basin of 
Lake Balkash as far east as Lake Saisan and the valley of the 
Black Irtish, and southwards to the valley of the Il and Issik- 
K ul 
We can find no notes of importance on the habits of this 
truly splendid Pheasant. 
SUB-SP. @. SEVERTZOV’S RING-NECKED PHEASANT. PHASIANUS 
SEMITORQUATUS. 
Phasianus semitorquatus, Severtz. Ibis, 1875, p. 491; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 329 (1893). 
Adult Male.—Very similar to the male of P. mongolicus, but, 
when skins of the two birds are placed side by side, it will be 
seen that the mantle, rump, throat, chest, and upper breast 
of the present bird are glossed with dull oily green, instead 
of purple-carmine, and the white ring is more widely inter- 
rupted on the fore-part of the neck. 
Adult Female—Very similar to the female of P. mongolicus. 
Range.—Dzungaria ; in the vicinity of Ebi-nor, Kuldja, 
Urumtsi, and Gutchen. 
Nothing is recorded concerning the habits of this species, 
but they probably do not differ much from those of the allied 
