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14. Phasianus mongolicus turcestanicus Lorenz. 

 (Turkestan Pheasant^) 



Ph. colchicus : 1823, Lichtenstein, Naturh. Anh. to 

 Eversrnann's Reis. Buchar. p. 133 (Kuwan-Darja, Ian- 

 Darja) (nee Linn., 1758) ; 1866, Eversmann, Natural History 

 of the Orenburg country (Russ.), iii. p. 350 (var. torque colli 

 alba, Aral). 



Ph. mongolicus : 1873, Sewertzow, Vertic. and Horizont. 

 Distribution of Turkest. Animals (Russ.), in Transac. I. S. P. 

 N. A. E. v. viii. pt. 2, p. 68 (nee Brandt, 1844) ; 1893, 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 328 (nee Brandt) ; 1897, Stolzmann, 

 Bull. S. N. Mosc. n. 1, p. 78 (nee Br.); 1903, Dresser, 

 Manual, p. 665 (pt., cum tijp.). 



Ph. mongolicus turcestanicus; 1896, Lorenz, Orn. Mon. 

 p. 189 (Syr-Daria). 



This Pheasant ranges through Russian Turkestan, from 

 the north-eastern shores of the Aral Sea along the valley of 

 Syr-Daria as far east as Gulcha, a valley in the Alai some 

 5000 feet in altitude and about 140 kilom. south of Osh. 



Its range is bordered by parts of the Tian-Shan and Alai 

 Mts. in the south-east, and by the Alai and Gissar Mts. in the 

 south, these chains separating it from Ph. shaivi, Ph. bianchii, 

 and Ph. zerafshanicus. To the west the Kysyl-Kura Sands 

 separate it from Ph. chrysomelas, but on the shores of the 

 Aral Sea their ranges meet. To the north-east the Karatau, 

 Alexander, and Terskentau Mts. form its boundary from the 

 closely allied, but perfectly distinguishable, Ph. mongolicus. 



15. Phasianus mongolicus semitorquatus Sewertzow. 

 (Dzungarian Pheasant.) 



Ph. semitorquatus : 1875, Sewertzow, Ibis, p. 491 (N.E. 

 of Kuldja) ; 1893, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 329 ; 1896, Lorenz, 

 Orn. M. p. 190 (Manas, Chiho) ; 1903, Dresser, Man. 

 p. 665 (subsp. of Ph. mong.). 



Ph. mongolicus semitorquatus : 1892, Pleske, Bull. Ac. 

 St. P. xiii. p. 295 ; 1899, Kozlow, Res. I. R. G. S. Exp. Centr. 

 As. (Russ.), ii. p. 286. 



This Pheasant, which is much more nearly allied to the 



