34 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



measures: bill from nostril, 7; wing, 116; tail, 66; tarsus, 40; middle toe and claw, 

 30 mm. 



EARLY HISTORY AND SYNONYMY 



The first specimens, both male and female, ever obtained of this species were 

 procured by a French missionary, P^re Chauveau, in the mountains near Tatsienlu, 

 Szechuan, and sent to Paris in the year 1866 by M. Dabry, French Consul at Hankow. 

 These were included in a remarkable collection of birds, containing not only four males 

 and a female of this new Blood Partridge, but a pair of the equally unknown L'Huys 

 Impeyan, and the first living Temminck's Tragopans which ever reached the continent 

 of Europe. The Blood Partridges were sent to the Societe Nationale d'Acclimatation 

 de France, where M. Jules P. Verreaux named them in honour of M. Albert Geoffroy 

 St.-Hilaire. 



SYNONYMY 



Ithaginis geoffroyi Verreaux, Bull, Soc. d'Acclim., (2), IV. 1867, p. 706; Gray, Hand-list, II. 1870, p. 264; 

 Sclater, Ibis, (2), VI. 1870, p. 297; David, N. Arch. Mus. d'hist. nat., VII. 1871, p. 11, No. 358 ; Swinhoe, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 400; Sclater, Ibis, (3), IV. 1874, p. 169 ; David & Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1877, p. 401, pi. 113 ; 

 Oustalet, Naturaliste, 1886, p. 276; Seebohm, Ibis, (6), III. 1891, p. 381 ; Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., (7), XII. 

 1892, p. 313 ; Seebohm, in Bower's Diary of Jour, across Tibet, 1894, p. 297; Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 

 (3). VI. 1894, p. jy; Beddard, Struct, and Class. Birds, 1898, p. 293; Bianchi, Annuaire du Mus. Zoo. I'Acad. 

 Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., t. VIII. 1903, p. i ; Bianchi, trans, of above. Jour. fur. Orn., LII. 1904, p. 70; Beebe, 

 Zoologica, I. 1914, p. 265. 



Ithaginis geoffroyii Gould, Birds Asia, VII. 1872, pl. 42 ; Elliot, Mon. Phas., II. 1872, pl. 31. 



Ithaginis geoffroii Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 359. 



I thagenes geoffroyi Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 269; Ogilvie-Grant, Hand-book, 

 Game-Birds, I. 1895, p. 218; Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I. 1899, P- 33; Davies, Ibis, (8), I. 1901, p. 408 ; Oates, 

 Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus., I. 1901, p. 50; Dresser, Man. Palae. Birds, II. 1903, p. 676 ; Wilson, A Naturalist in Western 

 China, II. 1914, p. 118 ; Baker, Ibis, 191 5, p. 122 ; Baker, Jour. Bomb. Nat. His. Soc, XXIV. 1916, p. 400. 



