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ad. (China). Crown and nape olive-buff, the former margined with 

 creamy white ; forehead, sides of head, and upper throat black glossed 

 with steel-blue, a white collar encircling the neck broad in front, narrow 

 behind ; upper parts pale golden orange varied with black and buff ; 

 scapulars and least wing-coverts pale chestnut-red ; rump chiefly blue ; 

 upper tail-coverta orange, somewhat varied with red ; tail paler than in 

 P. colchicus ; breast and flanks golden orange, the former washed with 

 purple on the sides and slightly marked with glossy blackish, the latter 

 broadly marked with black ; wing-coverts chiefly pale bluish white. 

 Culmen 1'5, wing 9*5, tail 19'8, tarsus 2'5 inch. The female is rather 

 smaller, and closely resembles that of P. colchicus. 



Hob. The lower Amur and the Ussuri country ; Mongolia ; 

 Manchuria ; Corea ; Tsusima island in the Strait of Corea ; 

 Eastern China south to Canton ; has been introduced into 

 Great Britain. 



In general habits it does not differ from P. colchicus ; it 

 frequents bush-covered places and does not perch in the trees 

 except when calling in the spring. It nests on the ground like 

 its allies, and deposits in May, June, and even as late as the 

 beginning of July, from 8 to 12, and even as many as 20 eggs, 

 which closely resemble those of P. colchicus. Introduced into 

 England early in the 18th century, and breeds freely with 

 P. colchicus. 



Mr. Rothschild (Bull. B. O. Club, xii. p. 21) separates the 

 form from N.E. Mongolia, Amur, and Corea, under the name 

 Phasianus torquatus mongolicus (Pall.). This form has the 

 inner wing-coverts and scapulars much paler chestnut-red, the 

 rump pale greenish olivaceous, and not blue, and the crown and 

 occiput are browner in tone of colour. 



926. SUBSP. PHASIANUS HAGENBECKI. 



Phasianus hagenbeclci, Kothschild, Bull. B. 0. Club, xii. p. 20 (1901). 



<$ ad. (Kobdo Valley, N.W. Mongolia). Is nearest allied to the 

 Mongolian form of Ph. torquatus, but the crown and occiput are browner, 

 the upper parts paler and less rufous, the rump rather bluer and boldly 

 barred with black, the ground-colour of the tail paler ; flanks paler, and 

 with fewer and smaller purplish black markings. Culmen T3, wing 9'1, 

 tail 17'2, tarsus 2'2 inch. 



Hob. Mongolia. 



I find no record of the habits and nidification of this Pheasant, 

 which probably do not differ from those of P. torquatus. 



