Distribution of the True Pheasants. L09 



Phasiano holdereri sirailis, torque angusta antice saepe inter- 

 rupt;!, macula alba postoculari nulla, uropygio olivascenti- 

 griseo, pileo olivaceo-viridi rubiginoso minime imbuto ; 

 cervfce collo fere concolori; alarum tectricibus olivas- 

 centi-luteo-griseis, sed superciliis angustissimis albi- 

 cantibus coloribusque corporis valdc pallidioribus (quam 

 in Ph. alpherakyi paulo saturation bus) distinguendus. 

 Habitat in China meridionali. 



Ph.gmelini inhabits South-eastern China, south to Canton, 

 north probably to Hangchow Bay and the middle Yang-tsi- 

 kiang, where its range coalesces with that of Ph. kiangsuensis. 

 Westward it extends through the province of Hoo-uan, but 

 I cannot say whether it passes into the eastern parts of 

 Quei-chow and there meets Ph. decollates. 



The distinguishing characters of this bird were pointed out 

 so long ago as 1877 by David and Oustalet under the name 

 " Ph. torquatus" but, as 1 have remarked when treating of 

 Ph. alpherakyi, it is impossible to decide what sort of bird 

 Gmelin's Ph. torquatus really was. The Museum of the 

 St. Petersburg Academy possesses two specimens of this bird, 

 obtained by the late I. Poliakow in Foo-chow (labelled 

 "21 »/12 83 N . 71 " and " 24/12 83 N. 71 "). As it is possible 

 that Gmelin's name was partly intended for this bird, 1 

 propose to name it Ph. gmelini. 



26. Phasianus decollatus Swinhoe. (Swinhoe' s Pheasant.) 



Ph. decollatus: 1870, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. p. 135 (Chung- 

 king in Sze-chuan) ; 1877, David et Oustalet, Ois. Chin, 

 p. 411 (pt., cum Ph. berezowskyi) ; 1893, Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Cat. p. 331 (pt.) ; 1903, Dresser, Man, p. 663 (not shown to 

 belong to the Palsearctic Region). 



Ph. decollatus inhabits the eastern parts of the province 

 of Yunnan, the western parts of Quei-chow, and perhaps 

 the south-eastern parts of Sze-chuan, as the type specimen 

 was purchased in the market of Chung-king, although 

 Mr. Swinhoe tried in vain to get another example. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant (Handb. G. B. 1897, ii. p. 28) mentions 

 it as existing in " Western Yunnan," but perhaps only by a 

 lapsus calami. He states (/. c.) also that this bird "extends 



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