584 PROF. GIGLIOLI AND COUNT T. SALVADORI ON [Dec. 6, 



11. Pica rustica (Scop.). 



Pica caudata, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. ."73 (1877). 



Pica pica, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 62 (1877). 



a. Olga Bay, September 1879. 



An adult specimen, in no respects difl'ering from European birds. 



12. Phasianus torquatus, Grm. 



Phasianns torquatus, Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. p). v. ; David et Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 409 (1877, Corea). 



a. S (adult). Possiette Bay, October 1879. 



b. S (juv.). Fusan, August 4th, 1880. 



c. 2 • Fusan, August 4th, 1880. 



The first specimen is in the perfect plumage of the fully adult 

 bird ; the forehead is dark bottle-green, the summit of the head 

 liglit olive without dark markings ; the whitish eyebrows are well 

 marked, and the white collar is complete and very wide (about an 

 inc'i in front), its feathers being slightly margined with greenish 

 black, especially at the back. The flanks are of a richer ochraceous 

 than in the usual North Cliina specimens, from which it otherwise 

 does not differ. 



Specimen 6 is a young bird in the ordinary gar!) of young Pheasants 

 moulting. It shows the following peculiarities : — 1st. Not a few 

 feathers of the neck and breast are of a reddish chestnut, some of 

 them show violet reflections on their edges. 2nd. Two feathers on 

 the rump are black, with a green apical border and irregular 

 whitish ochraceous stripes, exactly as can be seen in P. torquatus 

 from China. 3rd. Some of the feathers on the inferior part of the 

 cervix show : — an apical triangular mark, a narrow black edging on 

 each side, liext a reddish-brown band interrupted by the apical mark 

 already mentioned, a horseshoe-shaped band, a narrower one of 

 ochraceous colour, and finally the median black is divided by the 

 light-coloured stem. 4th. Two of the scapular feathers have chest- 

 nut-coloured margins with a black band followed by a light ochra- 

 ceous one and a third narrow one black, the central portion being 

 grey variegated with black. The tail is very short, formed of narrow 

 rectrices barred with black, reddish chestnut and grey, and spotted 

 with black. 



Specimen c is in the ordinary garb of the female, in which we find 

 noticeable : — 1st. The feathers at the base of the neck iu front and 

 behind of a reddish chestnut colour with lighter edges, and a V-like 

 black mark on the posterior feathers, and a crescentic black mark on 

 the anterior ones. 2nd. The reddish tail-feathers with black stripes 

 variegated with grey in the middle. 



From an attentive examination of the last two specimens, 

 it appears to us very probable that they belong to the well- 

 known P. torquatus, for the young male shows feathers on the rump, 

 scapulars, and inferior cervix similar to those of the last-mentioned 

 species. Also Pere David gives Corea as possessing the common 

 liing-necked Pheasant, and we can now fully confirm liis assertion. 



