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valleys to the southeast of the Caspian, there is no white ring on the neck, but 

 as we go eastward we find other species, such as Severtzow's pheasant (P. 

 chrysomelas) , from the Amu-Daria, and Shaw's pheasant, from Yarkand and Kash- 

 gar, in which the white ring, though absent in the typical examples, is in many 

 individuals distinct or represented by a few white feathers. Farther north along 

 the valley of the Sir Daria and ranging east through Turkestan to the valley of the 



A BOUQUET OF COMMON PHEASANTS. 



(One-fifth natural size.) 



Black Irtish, we find the Mongolian pheasant (P. mongolicus), and still farther east- 

 ward, in Dzungaria, the allied P. semitorquatus ', in both of which a wide and nearly 

 complete white collar is present. In the eastern forms with the slate-colored rump 

 a very similar arrangement occurs, the western and more southern species having 

 little or no trace of a white ring, but in the Chinese pheasant (figured on p. 2174), 

 ranging from the Amur, Manchuria, and Eastern Mongolia, through Eastern 

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