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seen or heard of (Mr. Ernst Hurler t, in iitt.) are darker than 

 the darkest Chinese Ring-Pheasants (I have recently named 

 them Ph. karpowi, see below, p. 405). Certainly in the most 

 northern parts of Corea Ph. ussuriensis may occur, and pale 

 " Chinese " specimens may turn out to be Ph. alpherakiji 

 from Northern Manchooria; but these two Pheasants have 

 nothing to do with Ph. formosanus or the other true Chinese 

 Ring-Pheasants, being quite different specificalh\ Ornitho- 

 logists have managed to make such a " ragout fin" of the 

 eastern White-collared Pheasants that it is not easily digested. 



19. Phasianus alpherakyi, sp. nov. (Sungarian Pheasant.) 



Ph. colchicus : 1811, Pallas, Zoogr. ii. p. 83 (nee L., 1758) 

 (" varietas torque alba in Mongolorum desertis "). 



Ph. torquatus : 1860, Schrenck, Vog. Amurl. p. 402 (pt., 

 Amoor, but not Macao in S.E. China) ; 1863, Radde, Festl. 

 Orn. S. O.-Sib. p. 303 (pt.) ; 1877, David et Oustalet, Ois. 

 Chin. p. 409 (pt.: var. « A") ; 1893, Taczanowski, Faun. Orn. 

 Siber. Or., in Mem. Ac. St. P. ser. 7, xxxix. p. 785 (pt.) ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 331 (pt.). 



Ph. torquatus mongolicus : 1901, Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. 

 xii. p. 21 (nee Brandt, 1844), subsequently withdrawn by the 

 author (pt., cum Ph. karpowi). 



Ph. torquatus pallasi : 1903, Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. 

 xiii. p. 43 (pt., cum Ph. karpowi) . 



Ph. hagenbecki : 1903, Tegetmeier, Field, vol. ci. p. 775 ; 

 id. vol. cii. p. 232; 1904, Tegetmeier, Pheasants, p. 190 

 (tigura bona) (nee Rothschild, 1901). 



Pallidus, torque integra alba latissima, superciliis latis et 

 longis maculaque postoculari albis ; pileo uropygioque 

 cyaneo-olivascentibus obsolete virenti nitore, scapula- 

 ribus margine castaneo-rubiginoso, juguli plumis angus- 

 tissime cseruleo-nigro marginatis, tectricibus alarum ex 

 majore parte caerulescenti-canis. 



Habitat in Manchuria centrali, circa Sungari fluvium. 



Ph. alpherakyi inhabits the central and northern parts of 

 Manchooria and probably N.E. Mongolia. It is abundant 

 on the middle Sungari, and great quantities of these birds 

 have been brought during the last two years to the markets of 



