

SUNGARIAN PHEASANT. 203 



obtained some perfect specimens. From these Mr. Frohawk 

 made a most careful drawing which is given in the form of the 

 accompanying coloured plate. At that time the distinction 

 between the Sungarian and Hagenbeck's pheasants was not 

 recognised, and the description and name of the latter were 

 applied to the new bird. The male bird was 3|lb. in weight, 

 and its extreme length was 38in. from the beak to the point of 

 the tail. The hen weighed 2|lb. 



I am indebted to Mr. F. W. Frohawk for the following 

 description of the Sungarian pheasant taken from the 

 identical specimen figured, the skin of which is still in his 

 collection : 



MALE. Forehead, deep black-green; crown, pale greenish 

 olive blending into greyish on nape ; lower nape, bronze-green, 

 superciliary band broad, extending almost to bill, pure white 

 with terminal green tufts ; conspicuous white ear spot ; throat 

 and neck, deep violet green, becoming purple on sides ; collar, 

 pure white, very broad, meeting at lower edge in front ; 

 mantle, deep straw-yellow, streaked with blackish and metallic 

 green; scapulars, broadly margined with chestnut-buff 

 reflecting purple gold, milk-white centres ; wing coverts, lilac- 

 grey ; secondaries, ochreous and ashy-grey margined with rich 

 coppery-chestnut reflecting purple ; primaries, brown barred 

 with white; lower back, lilac-grey shot with green, 

 vermiculated with black and ochreous; rump and tail coverts, 

 green-gray shading into golden rufus on sides ; breast, golden 

 coppery, reflecting amethystine purple, narrowly streaked with 

 black; flank feathers, straw-yellow with green -black terminal 

 patches ; belly, black-violet green, becoming brown towards 

 vent ; under tail coverts, deep chestnut ; tail, greyish-ochreous 

 transverse bars, black, outer half rich chestnut; central tail 

 feathers, 22in. long. FEMALE. Has the neck, mantle, and 

 tail shot with lilac, the feathers of the upper parts chestnut- 

 brown, margined with whitish ; basal portions, black. 



The Sungarians are obviously true pheasants, larger 

 in size than our ordinary species. They would evidently 



