394- Mr. S. A. Buturlin on the Geographical 



fresh examples the chief differences from the typical form 

 (as well as from Ph. shawi) would be more conspicuous. 



On the north, east, and south the home of Ph. bianchii is 

 limited by high mountains — the Gissar, Alai, Pamir, and 

 Hindu-kush. On the west its limit is not yet quite ascer- 

 tained. I suppose, however, that the females and chicks met 

 with by N. A. Zarudny and A. L. Iashtchenko in the Oxus 

 valley, from Biy-kala up to Kelif, and the male received by 

 Mr. Zarudny from Karki, would belong to this subspecies. 

 So somewhere between Karki and Chardjui the range 

 of Ph. bianchii meets or somewhat overlaps that of 

 Ph. zarudnyi. 



12. Phasianus shawi Elliot. (Yarkand Pheasant.) 



Ph. shawi: 1870, Eliot, P. Z. S. p. 403 (Yarkand) ; 1875, 

 Scully, Str. Feath. iii. p. 433; 1891, Sharpe, Sec. Yark. 

 Miss.' p. 120; 1893, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 32G ; 1903, 

 Dresser, Man. p. 660. 



Ph. insignis: 1870, Elliot, P. Z. S. p. 404 (Yarkand); 

 1875, Scully, Str. Feath. iii. p. 433. 



Ph. chrysomelas: 1877, Elliot, Str. Feath. v. p. 198 (nee 

 Sewertzow r , 1875). 



Ph. shawi inhabits the western part of Chinese Turkestan, 

 the valleys of the Khotan - Daria, Yarkand - Daria, and 

 Kashgar-Daria, the upper parts of the Tarim, and the lower 

 parts of the Aksu valley. It does not range high up the 

 mountainous parts of the valleys, and the caravan-road from 

 Sanju to Kashgar forms its south-western limit. 



The snow-clad chain of Tian-Shan serves as a limit between 

 this most easterly white-winged Pheasant and its northern 

 and north-western neighbours — the copper-throated, white- 

 collared, and silvery-grey-winged Ph. mongolicus and Ph. 

 iurcestanicus. The enormous masses of the Pamirs and Alai 

 separate it from Ph. bianchii of the upper Oxus, which is 

 better differentiated from Ph. shawi than the typical Ph. 

 chrysomelas with its more narrowly-margined chest-feathers. 



To the east our bird has no well-defined limits and some- 

 where in the valley of middle Tarim must meet with the 



