BIRDS FROM NORTHERN AND WESTERN PERSIA. 881 



Ammoperiix griseogidaris tzr-mevleni Zar. — Persian See See. 

 2 $, Qasr-i-Shirin— 24th November 1918. 

 This race of the See See, which appears to be found in N. Mesopotamia* 

 W. Persia and S. W. Persia was only obtained at Qasr-i-Shirin. Males of the 

 two races are not so easy to separate as females but these are freshly moulted 

 and I am satisfied with the identification. 



Phasianus colchicus tahjschensis. — Caspian Pheasant. 



1 $, 1 2 January— Resht. 



1 ^, March — Noglabar. 



1 ^, 1 ?, Bandar-i-Gaz (C. M. L). 

 This race of the Pheasant is common both on the northern slopes of the 

 Elburz, and low down in the extremely marshy forest close to the Caspian. In- 

 goldby flushed the bird at Bandar-i-Gaz from small tufts of rice straw in wet 

 paddy fields in winter, and they are not rare in the dense reed beds, round the 

 Resht lagoon country in which Purple Herons, Gallinules and Water Rails 

 seem more naturally at home. If one were to judge from the few specimens 

 at Tring and the British Museum, and the three males at my disposal one would 

 conclude that the white ring so characteristic of some Eastern Pheasants was 

 represented solely by an occasional white-tipped feather in some males and 

 not in others, but this is far from being the case. I have seen many scores of 

 specimens in the bazaars of Resht and Enzeli and a small proportion of them 

 have very nearly complete white rings to their necks, but are in other respects 

 typical lahjschensis. The throats of these specimens had been cut almost to 

 the point of decapitation, and I preserved no skins. Pheasants are sold for 

 about one toman, approximately eight shillings, a price sufficient to put every 

 gunner's hand against them. 



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