24 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
forms. Severtzov says that the country between Kuldja and 
Urumtsi, at the base of the Tian-shan mountains, where this 
form was first obtained, is a steppe locality with a rivulet and 
marshes. 
B. General colour of the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts greenish or bluish slate-colour, with a_ rust- 
coloured patch on each side (except in P. versicolor). 
With a white ring round the neck. 
IX. THE CHINESE RING-NECKED PHEASANT, PHASIANUS 
TORQUATUS. 
Phasianus torquatus, Gmelin, S. N. 1. pt. il. p. 742 (1788); J 
EE. Gray, lilind. @m: un. pl. 41, fig: © (1834) Gould 
B. Asia, vii. pl. 39 (1856); Sclater and Wolf, Zool. Sket. 
i. pl. 37 (1861) ; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. v. (1872) ; 
Prjevalsky, in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 385 (1877); 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 331 (1893). 
Phasianus albotorquatus, Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. Méth.1. p. 184 
(1791). 
(Plate XXII.) 
Adult Male—The colour of the lower back, &c., mentioned 
above, serves to distinguish this species at a glance from all those 
already described. The ground-colour of the mantle and flank- 
feathers is dright orange-buff instead of primrose, as in P. for- 
mosanus (but it must be added that in some birds from Corea 
and China this difference is scarcely apparent) ; the chest- and 
breast-feathers have only the zarrowest purple margins, and 
the whole breast is glossed with purplish-lake, as in P. perszcus. 
From the red-rumped species this and the following birds are 
further distinguished by having the black bars on the basal 
part of the tail-feathers much wider. ‘Total length, 35 inches ; 
wime,.922- tall, 20-2 5 tarsus, 27. 
Adult Female—Closely resembles the female of P. colchicus. 
Total length, 24°5 inches; wing, 8°2; tail, 10°5 ; tarsus, 2°4. 
