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continue to live until exterminated by the constant inroads of cultivation of 

 mankind. 



Zarudny found these birds in large numbers on the islands of the rivers connected 

 with the valley of the Atrek. The islands and the neighbouring banks are covered with 

 a dense growth of reeds, or more rarely are barren, grassy steppes, and here the 

 pheasants make their home in company with troops of wild boar, antelopes and bustards. 

 The chief enemies of the pheasants are jackals, wild cats and occasionally cheetahs and 

 leopards. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus principalis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885, p. 322, pi. XXII (Bala-Murghab, N.W. 

 Afghanistan); Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 502; Menzb., Ibis, 1887, p. 301 (Murghab, Tejend and 

 Dushak Rivers and Kaakuk Dist.) ; Scully, M. and B. N. Afghan., 1887, p. 86; Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, P- i/i J 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1889, p. 584 (Upper Murghab) ; Zarudny, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1889, p. 813 ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. 1889, (2), Zool. v., p. ^6, pi. vii. ; Radde and Walt, Ornis, 1889, pp. 89, 90, 170, 180 ; Zarudny, Bull. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc, 1890, p. 309 (partim) (streams from Daragez and Kalat Mountains); Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 

 1893, p. 325; Dresser, Birds, Eur. Suppl., 1895-96, p. 321, pi; Zarudny, Orn. F. Transcap., 1896, p. 477; Grant 

 Hand-book Game-birds, 1897, p. 16; Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds, II. 1903, p. 660; Tegetmeier, Bull. Brit' 

 Orn. Club, 1903, XIV., p. 33 (in England) ; Zarudny, Mem. Geo^r. gen. I., Russ. G. Soc, XXXVI. 1903, p. 76^ 

 (Heri-rud); Tegetmeier, Pheasants, 4th ed., 1904, p. 192, fig.; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 388 (Murghab basin and 

 oases of Mero, Yelotan and Pandj-deh) ; St. Quinton, Field, 113, 1909, p. 131 (white on cock's neck); Finn, 

 Avicultural Mag., 1910, I., p. 227; Beebe, Rec Ind. Mus., Vol. 5, pt. iv., No. 27, p. 270; Pocock, Proc Zool. Soc. 

 London, 191 1, Vol. XL, p. 862 (experiments with insects); Zarudny, Journ. fiir Orn., 59, 191 1, p. 204. 



Phasianus kornarowii ^ogddiuow , Bull. Acad, Sci. Peters., XXX. 1886, p. 356 (Askhabad) ; Bogdanow, M61. 

 Biol., XIL 1886, p. 319; Zarudny, Bull. Soc Nat. Mosc, 1886, LXI., p. 322 (Tchirin-Ichai and Kizil-Kan 

 tributaries of Atrek River). 



Phasianus prificipalis kojnarowi Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 388 (Tejend and Heri-Rud basins) ; Buturlin, Ibis, 

 1908, pp. 585, 587 ; Beebe, Rec Ind. Mus., Vol. 5, pt. iv.. No. 27, p. 270. 



P hasianus principalis typicus Buturlin, Ibis, igo8, pp. 585, 587. 



Phasianus colchicus principalis ^o\.\\^z\iM,^vX\. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV. 1904, p. 37; Millais, Nat. Hist. Brit. 

 Game-birds, 1909, p. 105 ; Hartert, Novitates Zoologicae, XXIV. 1917, p. 449. 



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