THE TRUE PHEASANTS, Sie! 
It does not differ in voice from P. forguatus, and begins to 
breed very early in spring. We have heard it as early as the 
13th of February.” 
XV. STONE’S PHEASANT. PHASIANUS ELEGANS. 
Phasianus elegans, Elliot, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (4) vi. p. 312 
(1870); id. Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. vili. (1872); Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 329 (1893). 
Phasianus sladent, Anderson MS.; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 
404, 408 ; Anderson, Rep. Zool. W. Yunnan, p. 671 (1878). 
Adult Male-—In general appearance this species somewhat re- 
sembles a hybrid between P. colchicus and P. versicolor. Apart 
from the general bluish slate-colour of the lower back and rump- 
feathers, which are ornamented with rather wide sub-terminal 
dark green bands, and the rust-coloured patches on each side 
of the rump, it has the lesser and median wing-coverts greez- 
ish-grey ; the chest, upper- and middle-parts of the breast, and 
the sides of the belly dark green; the feathers of the mantle 
light red with wide dull greenish-bronze margins, and the flank- 
feathers very similar, but tipped with very dark purplish-green. 
otal length, 27°5 inches ; wing, 9°1 ; tail, 14°7 ; tarsus, 2°5. 
Adult Female.—Differs chiefly from the female of P. colchicus 
in having the throat and fore-part of the neck zw/Az¢e, and the 
chest and rest of the under-parts barred irregularly with black. 
It nearly resembles the female of P. s¢vauchi, described above. 
feotal length, 21 inches; wing, 7°9 ; tail, 9°38 ; tarsus, 2°3. 
Range.—South-western China, Western Sze-chuen, and West 
Yunnan. 
We can find no record of the habits of this Pheasant ; the 
two examples sent to the Zoological Gardens by Mr. Stone 
were obtained in the Yun-ling Mountains, and it was from one 
of them that Mr. Elliot took his description. Dr. Anderson met 
with it on the grassy hills in the Momien district of Western 
Yunnan, 
