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

 Kashgar, 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 Black Irtish, we find the Mongolian pheasant (P. mongolicus), and still 

 farther eastward, in Dzungaria, the allied P. semitorquatus, in both of which a 



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wide and nearly complete white collar is present. In the eastern forms with the 

 slate -coloured 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. 407), ranging from the Amur, Mantchuria, and Eastern 

 Mongolia, through Eastern China, and its ally, P. satscheunensis, from the north of 

 the Nan-Shan Mountains, as well as in the Formosan pheasant (P. formoscmus), the 

 white ring is well developed. It will thus be seen that the more northern species 

 of both the rufous and grey-rumped groups have a white collar, while in the more 



