Distribution of the True Pheasants. 405 



assisted Mr. Rothschild in comparing my typical specimens 

 of Ph. alpherakyi with the types of Ph. pallasi at Tring. 



My own specimen of Ph. ussuriensis comes from Ussuri, 

 and I nave examined two examples from Sidemi in the 

 Museum of the Academy of St. Petersburg. These three 

 specimens, as well as those in Tring Museum, are evidently 

 identical with birds that served for Mr. Taczanowski's 

 descriptions of " Ph.torquatus" from Ussuri-land, and differ 

 from some thirty or thirty-five specimens from Sungari that 

 I have examined, as also from specimens on the London 

 market (also from Sungari) examined by Mr. Hartert {in litt.). 



21. Phasianus hagenbecki Rothschild. {Kobdo Pheasant.} 

 Ph. hagenbecki: 1901, Rothschild, Bull. Br. O. C. xii. 



p. 20 (Kobdo Valley); 1903, Dresser, Man. p. 606 (subsp. 

 of Ph. torquatus). 



Ph. hagenbecki is found in the valley of Kobdo in the 

 southern Altai. It is the most western representative of 

 the eastern grey-rumped Pheasants, and is only divided from 

 Ph. semitorquatus in the south-west by the Ektagh Altai 

 Mts. It is separated from Ph. alpherakyi by nearly the 

 whole of Northern Mongolia. This last resembles our bird 

 in its general pale colour (but not quite so pale as in 

 Ph. hagenbecki) and in its broad collar, but differs from it 

 in many important points (as shown in the synoptical table 

 above, p. 381). 



In the Museum of the Academy of St. Petersburg I have 

 examined two specimens of this bird brought home from 

 Kobdo by Mr. M. M. Berezowsky in 1877. 



22. Phasianus karpowi Buturlin. (Corean Pheasant.) 

 Ph. torquatus : 1893, Taezanowski, Faun. Orn. Sib. Or , 



in Mem. Ac. St. Pet. ser. 7, t. xxxix. p. 788 (pt., Core. 1 ) ; 

 1893, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 331 (pt.) j 1902, Bianchi, Mater. 

 Orn. Mandchourie, in Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Pet. t. vii. (Te-lin, 

 Southern Manchooria) (nee Cm.). 



Ph. torquatus niongolicus : 1901, Rothschild, Bull. F. O. C. 

 xii. p. 21 (pt., cum ussuriense ave) (nee Brandt, 1811). 



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

 xiii. p. 13 (pt., cum ussuriense are). 



