36 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



EARLY HISTORY 



Two Specimens, male and female, of the Yellow-necked Koklass were sent to the 

 British Museum by Sir F. W. A. Bruce in 1864. These were described by G. R. Gray, 

 and figured in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of the same year. Both types 

 are still in the South Kensington Museum. 



Two years before, this species was mentioned by Dr. Lamprey in the same 

 publication (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 221), where he speaks of Koklass as "another 

 kind of pheasant found in the Tien Tsin market," frozen and offered for sale. The 

 imperfect condition of the plumage led him to confuse it with macrolopha. 



P^re David says elsewhere (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 210), ''C'est moi qui ai en et 

 signals (en 1862) le premier une nouvelle esp^ce du Pucrasia que Mons. Gray a nommee 

 P. xanthospila. Elle a 6td introduite en France par notre ministre M. Berthemy en 

 1864." 



SYNONYMY 



Euplocamus pucrasia Lamprey (nee Gray), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 221. 



Pucrasia xanthospila Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 259, pi. XX ; Milne-Edw. N. Arch. Mus. Bull, I. 1865, P- 

 14, pi. I ; figs. 3 & 4 [N.E. of Pekin] ; Saurin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 437 [Mts. of N. and W. China] ; David, 

 N. Arch. Mus. Bull., III. 1867, p. 37 [Ta-Tchio-Chuan, Jdhol, Oulachan] ; Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus. 1867, 

 p. 31 ; David, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 210; Gould, Birds Asia, VII. 1869, pi. 24; Gray, Hand-list Birds, II. 1870, 

 p. 259 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 399 [N.W. China] ; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull., VII. 1871, p. 11 [Pekin, 

 Mongolia, Sze-chuen] ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 552 [Manchuria to Sze-chuen] ; Elliot, Mon. Phas., I. 

 1872, pi. 30; Vekemans, Bull. Soc. d'Acclim. 1872, p. 384; Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 169; David and Oustalet, Ois 

 Chine, 1877, P- 497> P^- ^^4 [Manchuria to E. Thibet]; Andelle, Bull. Soc. d'Acclim. 1878, p. 663; Marshall, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 463 ; Libsig, Bull. Soc. d'AccHm. 1881, p. 583 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1891, p. 380 [W. Cze-chuen] ; Grant, 

 Cat, Game-birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 315 ; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, I. 1895, P- 285 ; Sharpe, Hand- 

 list Birds, I. 1899, p. 36; Walton, Ibis, 1903, p. 32; Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds, pt. II. 1903, p. 670; Mitchell, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 191 1, p. 521 ; Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Zool. ed. Anat. Torino, XXVII. 1912, No. 647; Courtis, Ibis, 

 1913, p. 15. 



Pucrasia davidiana Milne-Edw., N. Arch. Mus. Bull, I. 1865, p. 14.' 



Pucrasia meyeri Oustalet, Ann, Scl Nat. (7), XII, 1892, p, 316 [Ta-tsi6n-lou]. 



Pucrasia xanthospila xanthospila Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 15, 1914, 278 ; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. His, Soc. 

 XXV. 1918, p. 541. 



