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chrysomelas), from the Amu-Daria, and Shaw’s pheasant, from Yarkand and 
Kashgar, in which the white ring, though absent in the typical examples, is in 
many individuals distinct or represented by a few white feathers. Farther north 
along the valley of the Sir Daria and ranging east through Turkestan to the valley 
of the Black I:tish, we find the Mongolian pheasant (P. mongolicus), and still 
farther eastward, in Dzungaria, the allied P. semitorquatus, in both of which a 


































A BOUQUET OF COMMON PHEASANTS (} nat. size), 
wide and nearly complete white collar is present. In the eastern forms with the 
slate-coloured rump a very similar arrangement occurs, the western and more 
southern species having little or no trace of a white ring; but in the Chinese 
pheasant (figured on p. 407), ranging from the Amur, Mantchuria, and Eastern 
Mongolia, through Eastern China, and its ally, P. satschewnensis, from the north of 
the Nan-Shan Mountains, as well as in the Formosan pheasant (P. formosanus), the 
white ring is well developed. It will thus be seen that the more northern species 
of both the rufous and grey-rumped groups have a white collar, while in the more 
