Distribution of the True Pheasants. Ml 



28. Phasianus berezowskyi Rothschild. (Berezowsky's 

 Pheasant.) 



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

 (pt,, S. Shensi) ; 181)3, Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. p. 331 (pt., Sin- 

 ling Mts.). 



Ph. strauchi : 1891, Berezowski and Bianchi, Birds of the 

 Kan-sn Exp. Potanin (Russ.), \). 18 (pt., Hoi-sian). 



Ph. berezowskyi : 1901, Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. xii. 

 p. 20 (Hui-Tsian) ; 1903, Dresser, Man. p. 603 (subsp. of 

 Ph. strauchi). 



Mr. Rothschild established this species on specimens from 

 Hui-Tsian (or Hoi-Sian), the most easterly part of Southern 

 Kan-su. Most probably the ringless Pheasants of Southern 

 Shensi, including those of the Sin-ling Mountains, belong to 

 it, and perhaps also those of North-eastern Sze-chuan. 



Judging from descriptions (for 1 have seen no specimens) 

 this Pheasant is somewhat intermediate in appearance between 

 Ph. strauchi and Ph. decoltatus, as it is intermediate in range. 



29. Phasianus elegans Elliot. (Stone's Pheasant.) 



Ph. elegans: 1870, Elliot, Ann. & Mag. N. 11. vi. p. 312 

 (Vun-ling Mts.); 1893, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. p. 329; 1898, 

 Oates, Game B. Ind. i. p. 299. 



Ph. sladeni: 1870, Elliot, P. Z. S. pp. 404, 408; 1871, 

 Anderson, P. Z. S. p. 214 (W. Yunnan) ; 1877, David et 

 Oustalet, Ois. Chin. p. 411. 



Ph. elegans is restricted to the mountains of Western Sze- 

 chuau and Western Yunnan in China, and to the Northern 

 Shan States of Burmah, where it extends as far south as 

 23°45'N.lat. 



Its eastern neighbour is Ph. decoltatus, and its northern 

 neighbour is Ph. strauchi. Messrs. Bianchi and Berezowsky 

 state (/. c.) that some specimens of Ph. strauchi have so much 

 green on the breast and chest (though not confluent with the 

 green on the lower throat) that they seem in this respect 

 to be intermediate between that species and Ph. elegans. 



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