550 MR. R. SWTNHOE ON NEW CHINESE BIRDS. [Apr. If), 



Negro seems to be not quite so decided, being represented only by 

 Turdus falklandieus, Phrygilns fruticeti, Sturnella militaris, Glauci- 

 dium nanum, and Diuca minor, a small representative form of Diuca 

 cinerea. These have, in all probability, come up from the south, 

 the avifauna of Southern Patagonia being almost purely Chiliau.— 

 P. L. S.] 



4. Descriptions of two new Pheasants and. a new Garrulax 

 from Ningpo, China. By R. Swinhoe, F.Z.S., H.M. 

 Consul at Ningpo. 



[Eeceived March 18, 1872.] 



From the mountainous region of this province (Che-Kiang) I 

 have procured a truly beauteous Pheasant, perhaps the loveliest of 

 that lovely group. It is smaller than Phasianus torquatus, and has 

 comparatively shorter wings and longer tail. The colouring of its 

 head and tail recall P. reevesii, its coppery back and breast the P. 

 scemmeringii of Japan, and the glowing maroon on its scapulars the 

 Euplocamus swinhoii of Formosa ; but its curiously marked lower 

 back and white-barred wing are suggested by no other species of 

 this family to my knowledge, and its white underparts no other 

 true Pheasant possesses. Its mate is a smaller bird, and in colora- 

 tion more of a Grouse than a Pheasant ; but in her black under 

 neck and in the marks of her lateral rectrices she shows her relation- 

 ship to her lord. Possessed of so many striking characters, it would 

 be easy to find an appropriate name for so marked a species ; but 

 on glancing down the list of Pheasants I find that not one bears 

 the name of Elliot ; and it strikes me it would be a wrong to allow 

 his magnificent work on the group to close without the figure of a 

 bird dedicated to himself: I therefore propose to name this firstfruits 

 of my researches in this Province 



Phasianus ellioti, sp. nov. 



Male. — Crown of head dusky olive, centred darker; a white streak 

 over eye, narrowly bordered with black ; face-skin shaped and 

 coloured like that of P. torquatus, but quite bare ; lower eyelid 

 covered with minute white feathers, edged below with black ; sides 

 and back of neck bluish grey, becoming white as it descends down- 

 wards and sidewards ; ear-coverts deep olive-grey, the feathers rather 

 long and disintegrated ; feathers on rostral edge of face-skin, chin, and 

 throat black, burnished with steel-blue as it descends to edge of 

 breast and forms a narrow collar round white tippet of neck. Back 

 and breast yellowish chestnut, deeper round the collar and on lower 

 breast ; each feather with a crescent of black across its centre, and 

 with broad rounded loosely webbt d margin reflecting a rich metallic 

 golden hue ; those of the lower breast crossed with black and with 

 white ; belly pure white, the flank-feathers being irregularly barred 



