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range. In Western Sze-chuen, Mr. Pratt met with this species 
on the grassy slopes on the spurs of the mountains up to an 
elevation of about 9,000 feet. He observed that it avoided the 
forest regions, always preferring the brushwood, and that in con- 
finement it invariably roosted on the ground. We can find 
no other notes referring to this species, but no doubt its habits 
are generally similar to those of P. ¢orguatus, of which it is the © 
south-western representative, 
XIII. STRAUCII’S PHEASANT. PHASIANUS STRAUCHI. 
Phastanus straucht, Prjevalsky, Mongol. ii. pt. 2, p. 119, pl. 
xvits (1876); id. in Kowley’s Or: Misc. i p. 417 
(1877); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 330 
(1893). 
Adult Male.—Easily distinguished from the males of both 
P. elegans and P. vlangalii by having the chest and sides 
of the breast fery orange-red with narrow, complete, dark 
purplish-green margins instead of dark green; from the 
former it is further distinguished by having the middle of 
the scapulars whztish-buff freckled with black next the shaft, 
and from the latter by the margins of these feathers being 
Lndian-red. Total length, 36°5 inches ; wing, 9°4; tail, 23°3 ; 
tarsus, 2°5. 
Adult Female——Upper-parts much like those of P. colchicus, 
but the feathers of the nape and mantle are indistinctly tipped 
with dark green, instead of violet and purple; the under- 
parts are whitish buff barred with black, the bars on the flanks 
having some green gloss. Total length, 23:5 inches; wing, 
ate, tail, 12°5 ; tarsus, 2°2. 
Range.— North-western Kansu. 
Habits——Prjevalsky, who originally discovered and named 
this very handsome species says:—‘ The bird inhabits the 
wooded parts of the Kansu Mountains, up to an absolute 
