1870. ] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON NEW PHEASANTS. 403 
mals and birds, brought by Mr. Robert Shaw from the distant pro- 
vince of Yarkand, Eastern Turkestan. Mr. Shaw, although perhaps 
not the first European who has penetrated this country, is certainly, 
I believe, the only Englishman who has succeeded in getting away 
from it with his head on his shoulders. There were but few species 
brought by him: among the mammals there are some probably 
new to science ; I hope to give a list of them shortly. Of birds there 
were only five specimens, four Pheasants and one Tetraogallus 
himalayensis. The Pheasants represent two new species, which I 
propose to call P. shawit and P. insignis. They belong to the true 
Phasianus, and may be described as follows. 
PHASIANUS SHAWIT, Sp. nov. 
Pileo summo nitide viridi ; collo postico et gutture toto, genis et 
colli lateribus purpurascente et viridi variantibus ; dorso summo 
aureo-metallico, plumis macula apicali saturate indigotica nota- 
tis ; dorso imo saturate castaneo, albo et nigro parum variegato 
et maculis paucis indigoticis notato, sub certa luce viridi nitente ; 
tectricibus supracaudalibus saturate castaneis unicoloribus, 
scapularibus aureo-castaneis, dorso proximis albo et nigro con- 
spicue fasciatis: tectricibus alarum fere albis, majoribus late 
castaneo marginatis : remigibus pallide brunneis, secundariis 
albo marginatis ; interioribus rufo marginatis, primariis intus 
albo fasciatis, extus albo lavatis et variegatis : cauda rufo- 
brunnea irregulariter nigro fasciata, subtus albo et nigro va- 
riegata: pectore superiore metallice aureo-castaneo, plumis 
omnibus indigotica marginatis : pectore reliquo aureo-castaneo 
saturatiore ; hypochondriis aureis nitente purpureo terminatis : 
abdomine sordide brunneo, nigricante: rostro fluvido. 
Top of head and occiput brown, changeable to purple and green 
in different lights; rest of head, throat, and neck green, changing 
to blue and purple. No white ring round the neck. Feathers of 
upper part of back black at base running about two-thirds the 
length; shaft and adjacent part of middle of the feather white ; 
between the black and the metallic golden brown edging is dull 
chestnut ; each feather tipped with metallic blue. Scapulars, for 
the most part, chestnut, with small spots of metallic blue at the tip ; 
bases of the feathers grey, shaft and centre white; between this 
white and the brown edging a bar of black. Shoulder white, a few 
feathers variegated with black, principally in the centre of the fea- 
thers. Some of the greater coverts long and broadly margined with 
chestnut. Secondaries pale brown, outer web slightly washed with 
rufous on the edge, mottled in the centre with fulvous and black. 
Rump chestnut-red, covered in some lights with greenish reflec- 
tions ; the ends of the feathers, which are very long, hiding the upper 
coverts, deep unchangeable red. Feathers of the upper part of the 
breast broad (with a rich blue spot in the centre at tip), deep rich 
chestnut, margined with brilliant blue. Feathers of lower part of the 
breast broader, and rather lighter in colour, bordered also with blue. 
Flanks golden brown, with a brilliant dark blue spot in the centre at 
