Distribution of the True Pheasants. 381 



x\ White collar incomplete in front 

 and extremely narrow, but quite 

 recognisable ; chest- and breast- 

 feathers very narrowly (about ^ 

 inch broad) tipped with some- 

 what light purplish red-bronze 

 and often with a narrow black- 

 ish-blue apical shaft-streak ; 

 scapulars with little of a black- 

 ish-blue apical spot, but without 

 or nearly without black margins ; 

 flanks spotted with black and 



purplish blue 9. zerafshanicusfeS&l). 



>'. Collar extremely narrow and 

 broadly interrupted in front 

 smd behind ; chest- and breast- 

 feathers widely (about £ inch 

 broad) tipped with somewhat 

 dark purplish red-bronze with 

 faint greenish gloss, and on the 

 sides of these parts margined 

 with blackish green ; scapulars 

 tipped with blackish-green spots, 

 but with no or hardly any black 

 margins ; flanks spotted with [(p. 390). 



blackish green 8. zarudnyi, nom. n. 



'. Collar absent or only some white 

 spots, as traces of it, visible ; 

 chest- and breast - feathers 

 widely (about \ inch broad) 

 tipped with somewhat light 

 purplish red-bronze, without 

 greenish gloss and black apical 

 shaft-streaks; scapulars mar- 

 gined and widely tipped with 

 blackish blue. 

 e". Feathers on the sides of breast 



margined and on the flanks 



tipped with blackish purplish 



blue 6. principalis (p. 388). 



f". Feathers ou the sides of the 



breast margined and on the 



flanks tipped with blackish 



green or blackish purplish 



green 7. komarowi (p 388). 



