658 SYRRHAPTESPHASIANUS 



deposited late in Ma} 7 or early in June, and are stone-buff, often 

 with a greenish tint, marked with purplish brown shell-blotches 

 and dark brown surface-spots, and measure about T69 by 1*16. 

 The young bird was taken in Scotland on the 8th of August. 



910. TIBETAN SAND-GROUSE. 

 SYRRHAPTES TIBETANUS. 



Syrrhaptcs iibetanus, Gould, P.Z.S. 1850, p. 92 ; id. B. of Asia, vi. pi. 61 ; 

 Prjev. Mongol i Strana Tangut. ii. p. 14 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 5 : Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 63. 



fttcpnaya-kurutza-Tibetskaya, Russ. ; Kuk, Kaling, Ladak. 



( ad. (Tibet). Forehead, lores, cheeks, and chin whitish slightly 

 speckled with black ; crown white irregularly barred with black ; sides of 

 head, throat, and a band round the neck deep ochreous yellow ; lower neck 

 and breast whitish, narrowly barred with black ; upper parts pale fawn, 

 finely vermiculated with black ; scapulars spotted with black ; quills and 

 larger wing-coverts black ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts with 

 ground colour whitish ; middle tail-feathers tinged with rufous, the long 

 tips black, the rest chestnut tipped with white, and obsoletely barred ; 

 lower breast pale greyish brown fading to white on the abdomen ; under 

 tail-coverts chestnut, barred with black, and tipped with white ; bill 

 bluish ; iris brown. Culmen 0*5, wing 10'15, tail 8'0, tarsus I'l inch. In 

 the female the markings on the upper parts are much coarser, the whole 

 breast is barred and the middle tail-feathers are shorter. 



Hob. Tibet and the Pamir, where it is resident and found in 

 summer at elevations above 12,000 feet, north of Sikhim ; Koko- 

 nor in Mongolia, Ladak and the upper Sutlej valley. 



Frequents barren, sandy localities, and in habits resembles 

 S. paradoxiis ; frequents sandy plains, where it feeds on seeds of 

 various kinds, and is not shy. Its call-note, which is uttered 

 on the wing, is a loud caga, caga, caga. So far as I can ascertain 

 its eggs are unknown. 



PHASIANUS, Linn., 1766. 

 911. PHEASANT. 



PHASIANUS COLCHICUS. 



Phasianus colcJiicus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 271 (1766) ; Naum. vi. p. 433, 

 Taf. 162; Hewitson, i. p. 276, pi. Ixviii. ; Gould, B. of E. iii, 

 pi. 247 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 12 ; Dresser, vii. p. 85, pi. 469 ; 

 Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxii. p. 320 ; Saunders, p. 499 ; 

 Lilford, iv. p. 114, pi. 51 ; P. c. septentrionalis, Lorenz, J. f. 0. 1888, 

 p. 572. 



