CHAPTEE XV. 



PHEASANTS ADAPTED TO THE COVERT 

 (CONTINUED). 



THE SUNGARIAN PHEASANT (PHASIANUS 

 ALPHERAKYI). 



HIS beautiful pheasant inhabits the north central 

 parts of Manchuria and probably the north-east of 

 Mongolia, and according to the account given by 

 Mr. Buturlin in his excellent article on the true 

 pheasants published in the Ibis, 1904, i{ is abundant in 

 the middle Sungari. Owing to some confusion which 

 arose with regard to the naming of this species, Mr. 

 Buturlin found it necessary to give it a new name; he therefore 

 called it after the well-known Russian zoologist, Mr. S. N. 

 Alpheraky, who sent the first specimen to him for description. 

 Unfortunately the Sungarian pheasant was described and 

 figured in the fourth edition of this book under the name of 

 Hagenbeck's pheasant, a distinct variety, the type specimen 

 of which is in the Tring Museum. At a meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club on November 20, 1901, the Hon. 

 Walter Eothschild exhibited this specimen, to which the name 

 of P. hagenbecJfi was given, he having received it from 

 Mr. C. Hagenbeck, and its habitat was stated as the Kobdo 

 Valley, N.W. Mongolia. 



In April, 1903, a large consignment of Sungarian pheasants, 

 in a frozen condition, reached the London market via the 

 Siberian Railway, and by the kindness of Mr. Carstang I 



