410 Mr. S. A. Buturlin on the Geographical 



from Yunnan " northwards to Southern Shensi, " eastwards 

 to the Sin-ling Mountains, and southwards to Western Quei- 

 chow." But, in fact, the Sin-ling Mountains are not situated 

 cast of Southern Shensi, but to the north aud Avest of it, 

 making a boundary between Southern and Northern Shensi 

 and Kansu; while Quei-chow lies not to the south,but to north- 

 east of Yunnan. The ringless Pheasants of Southern Shensi 

 and the Sin-ling Mountains, mentioned by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 (on the authority of David) are not Ph. decollatus, as that 

 species was not found by M. Berezowsky even in Northern 

 Sze-chuan, but Ph. berezowskyi. The Pheasants of Eastern 

 Koko-nor and Moupin were probably rightly considered by 

 Seebohm to be Ph. strauchi (see P. Z. S. 1888, p. 267). 

 The neighbours of Ph. decollates are: Ph. elegans on the 

 west, Ph. (jmelini on the east, Ph. bcnzoicskyi on the north, 

 aud perhaps Ph. strauchi ou the north-west. 



27. Phasianus strauchi Przewalski. (Strauch's Pheasant.) 



Ph. strauchi : 1876, Przewalski, Mongolia and the Country 

 of Tanguts (Russ.), ii. p. 119 (Tatung, Buhuk-gol) ; 1891, 

 Berezowski and Bianchi, Birds of the Kan-su Exped. 

 Potanin (Kuss.), p. 18 (pt., cum Ph. berezowskyi) ; 1893, 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 3.29; 1903, Dresser, Man. p. 663. 



Ph. decollatus: 1877, David et Oustalet, Ois. Chin. p. Ill 

 ( pt. : E. Koko-nor, ? Moupin). 



Ph. strauchi is found in the mountains of the province of 

 Kan-su up to 10,000 feet. It frequents the wooded parts of 

 the Tatung and Buhuk-gol valleys, the Tatung Mts., and the 

 mountains of the Amdos Plateau (near Si-ning), probably 

 extending south to Moupin. In the north-eastern part of 

 Kan-su, Mr. Berezowsky did not find this species; his specimens 

 from South-western Kan-su (Ma-pua-san, some 50 miles 

 south of Zan-chow) are most probably Pit. strauchi, but those 

 from South-eastern Kan-su and Northern Sze-chuau are partly 

 or even wholly Ph. berezowskiji. The specimens are in the 

 Museum of Irkutsk, aud I have not been able to examine 

 them. 



