Distribution of the True Pheasants. 387 



cum Ph. lorenzi) ; 1903, Dresser, Manual, p. 660 (subsp. of 

 colchicus). 



Ph. persicus talyschensis : 1896, Zarudny, Orn. Faun. 

 Transcasp. p. 475 (Resht, ? Sari) (Russ.). 



This Pheasant inhabits the lowlands of the south-western 

 Caspian coast : Lenkoran (formerly in the khanat of Talysh), 

 and the Persian province of Ghilan. How far east it ranges 

 along the southern Caspian coast I do not know. Mr. N. 

 A. Zarudny states that two specimens from Sari (Eastern 

 Mazanderan) are identical with the Talysh bird, but further 

 investigation may prove Mazanderan birds to be more or less 

 distinct. Here, in Mazanderan, the ranges of Ph. talischensis 

 and Ph. persicus meet. Somewhere near the north-western 

 shore of Kizil-Agatch it meets with an only subspecifically 

 distinct form, Ph. lorenzi. 



Ph. talischensis is, of course, nearer to Ph. persicus than 

 any other Pheasant of the Caucasian group, but it is sharply 

 distinguished by the colour of the wing-coverts (a very 

 constant feature among the western red-rumped Pheasants), 

 so that the two must stand as specifically distinct. 



5. Phasianus persicus Sewertzow. (Persian Pheasant) 



Ph. colchicus, var. : 1870, Poelzam, Proceed. Kasan. Sue. 

 Natur. (Russ.), i. p. 140 (nee Linn., 1758). 



Ph. persicus : 1875, Sewertzow, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 xlviii. 3 (1874, but publ. in 1875), p. 208 (southern shore of 

 Caspian) ; 1893, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 324 ; 1896, Zarudny, 

 Orn. Faun. Transcasp. (Russ.), p. 476 ; 1903, Dresser, Man. 

 p. 661. 



Ph. shawi: Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 132 (nee Elliot, 1870). 



Ph. komarowi : 1885, Zarudny, Oiseaux de la Contree 

 Transcasp., in Bull. S. Nat. Mosc. lxi. 1, pp. 277, 322 (Tchirin 

 Tchai, Kizyl-kan) (descr. null.). 



The Persian Pheasant inhabits North-eastern Persia and 

 the south-western part of the Transcaspian province, in- 

 cluding the basins of the Atrek and Gurgen (it. Tchirin- 

 Tchai, Kizyl-kan, Sumbar, Chandyr, middle Atrek, Kara-su, 

 Gurgen) and the south-eastern Caspian coast from the left 



