>104< Mr. S. A. Buturlin on the Geographical 



Bogdanow, Catal. Avium Imp. Ross. i. p. 21 (Ussuri, descr. 

 bona) (pt.) ; 1893, Taczanowski, Faun. Orn. Sib. Or., in 

 Mem. Ac. St. Pet. ser. 7, xxxix. p. 785 (pt., Ilssuri) : 1893, 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 331 (pt.) ; 1903, Dresser, Man. p. 665 

 (pt.). 



Ph. torquatus mongolicus : 1901, Rothschild, Bull. B. 0. C. 

 xii. p. 21 (pt., cum Ph. karpoivi) (nee Brandt, 1844). 



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

 xiii. p. 43 (pt.). 



Phasiano alpherakyi simillimus, ])allidus et torquatus 

 maculaqne postoculari alba, sed pilco paulo obscuriore, 

 olivasceuti-terreo, dorso paululo obscuriore, tectricibus 

 alarum arenaceo-lacteis, non caerulescenticanis dis- 

 till guendus. 

 Habitat circa Ussuri fluvium et litora maris Japonici. 

 Ph. ussuriensis replaces the typical Ph. alpherakyi in the 

 basin of! the Ilssuri, whence it occasionally extends to the 

 mouths of the river, and in the southern part of Ussuri- 

 land, where, on the snores of the Japanese Sea, it is not 

 found north of 44° N. lat. On the north-west the water- 

 parting of the Ussuri and Sungari evidently borders its 

 range, but further to the south its limit is as yet un- 

 certain. Perhaps, however, it does not extend further west 

 than the Sikhota-Alin Mts., as 1 have in my collection a 

 specimen of the typical (western, grey-winged) form from 

 lake Khanka, and another labelled " Vladivostok/' but 

 probably obtained at some distance to the westward. To 

 the south somewhere near the Corcau boundary its range 

 coalesces with that of Ph. karpowi. 



Pallas's u Ph. colchicus torque alba" is not this form, but 

 the typical Ph. alpherakyi, as is evident from his description, 

 and from the range he gives ( fk alee secundaria? incumbentibus 

 non luteo-griseis, sed e can'ulescenti-canis," Zoogr, /. c.) ; 

 but Mr. Rothschild's Ph. torquatus, mongolicus — aud his 

 PA. torquatus pallusi, so far as it is not based on Ph. karpowi — 

 is founded on specimens not of the western Sungari-an form, 

 but on sandy-winged birds from Ussuri, Amour Bay near 

 Vladivostok, and Sidemi, somewhat south of Vladivostok. 

 So 1 am most kindly informed by Mr. Ernst Hartert, who 



