30 LLOYD'S NATURAL ‘HISTORY. 
height of 10,000 feet. It appears to be most numerous in 
the Tetunga and Buguk-gol valleys, but higher up these rivers, 
where woods are scarce, it disappears. 
‘In voice and habits it does not differ from P. corguatus and 
P. vlangalit. ‘The breeding-season commences in April or 
March, and lasts until the middle of July. The earliest young 
we obtained on the 23rd of June. The number of young 
averages from six to ten, and sometimes even twelve ; they are 
always accompanied by both parents ; and very often the male 
bird defends the young even more vigorously than the female.” 
XIV. VLANGALIS PHEASANT. PHASIANUS VLANGALII. 
Phasianus vlangalit, Prjevalsky, Mongol. i. pt. 2, p. 116, pl. 
Xvi. (1876); id. in Rowley’s Orn. Mise. i pe 33a 
(1877); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xx. p. 37e 
(1893). 
Adult Male—May be distinguished from P. elegans by hay- 
ing the general colour of the mantle and scapulars sandy-red, 
and the sides and flanks go/den-buff instead of dull orange-red 
glossed with purple; from /. s¢vauchi it differs in having the 
colour of the chest dark green. Total length, 31°5 inches; 
wine, 9°5; tail, §7°5.; tarsus, 2°6. 
Adult Female.—Upper-parts like those of P. colchicus, but the 
predominating colour is fale duff and the black markings are 
much fainter ; throat pure white; under-parts whitish-buff with 
faint brown cross-bars. ‘Total length, 22°5 inches; wing, 8:2; 
tail,“Er s ‘tarsas; 24. 
Range.— T'saidam marshes, extending north to the Koko-nor 
Mountains. 
Habits.—Concerning this species, Prjevalsky remarks :—‘‘ We 
found this bird in Tsaidam, where it inhabits the cane-groves 
and bush-covered localities. In autumn and winter it feeds 
principally on berries, which it eats while sitting on the 
branches, and at that time especially is very wild and wary. 
