402 Mr. S. A. Buturlin on the Geographical 



of greenish-whitish buff [as in Ph. kiangsuensis ; this point 

 evidently is intended for Amoor birds, as the superciliariesof 

 Corean birds are not so broad and long, widely interrupted 

 in front, and tinged in upper parts not with brownish buff — 

 very pale brownish buff indeed — but with dark rusty or 

 maroon-red], with a nearly complete green collar below the 

 white ring [purely individual character, as Mr. Rothschild 

 afterwards satisfied himself (Mr. E. Hartert, in Hit.)']. The 

 flanks are darker buff [than in Shangai birds : this applies 

 only to Corean birds, Ph. karpowi being in fact the darkest 

 of all the Ring-Pheasants ; but Amoor birds have the flanks 

 of a much paler colour than the Kalgan, Shanghai, or even 

 Foo-chow Ring-Pheasants], the breast-feathers having the 

 violet borders much narrower or obsolete. The rump is 

 brownish olive instead of greenish lavender-blue, the sides 

 of the rump being of a dirty orange colour [this is true in 

 Corean birds, the rump being of a very brownish olive, while 

 the rump of the Amoor bird is of a much more greenish 

 lavender-blue]. The broad borders of the scapulars are 

 duller chocolate-red [quite true in Corean birds, but Amoor 

 birds have somewhat paler scapulars than Ph. kiangsuensis] ." 

 Mr. Rothschild adds : " The Corean bird may prove to be a 

 third subspecies, as some birds have very pale flanks." As 

 1 have just stated, all the Amoor specimens (true Ph. 

 alpherakyi and its eastern subspecies Ph. ussuriensis) have 

 pale flanks, but Corean and South Manchoorian specimens 

 have the darkest flanks of any Ring-Pheasant. I have 

 one specimen from Te-lin, the type of my Ph. karpowi, in 

 my own collection, two similar Corean birds are in the 

 Zoological Museum of the Academy of St. Petersburg, and 

 Mr. Rothschild himself and Mr. Hartert were so kind as to 

 compare my specimen with Corean examples in the Tring 

 Museum and have found them to be identical. I may say, 

 that so accurate an observer as Taczanowski mentions 

 that the Corean Pheasants have " toutes les couleurs plus 

 foncees." 



I may add that there are no grounds for giving to the 

 Corean Pheasant only subspecific rank. In the colour and 



