SATCHU OASIS PHEASANT 



Phasianus colchicus satscheuensis Pleske 



Names. — Subspecific: satscheuensis, from the bird's home, the Satchu Oasis. English: Satchu Oasis 

 Pheasant 



Type. — Locality : Oasis of Satchu. Describer : Pleske. Place of Description : Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., XIII. 

 1892, p. 296. 



Subspecific Characters. — Male : Distinguished from its nearest neighbours tarimensis, vlangalii and 

 strauchi by its very pale colour and white collar, and from torquatus by the sandy-brown instead of Indian-red 

 margins of the scapulars and secondaries, while the margins of the ventral plumage are wide and purplish green- 

 Female : Is very much paler than torquatus, the dorsal plumage pale buff with greatly reduced black markings. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



The most western portion of Kansu, north of the Nan-shan. Along the valley of 

 the Buluzin and the marshes and lake of Khalachi-Nor; the valley of the Dankhe, the 

 oasis of Satchu; Ansu, Shao-wan and Shanto-po, from 2,000 to 7,000 feet. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus satscheuensis Przewalsky, from Zaissan through Khami to Tibet (Russ.), 1883, p. 95 {descr. nulla) ; 

 Pleske, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., XIII. 1892, p. 296 (N. of Nan-shan Mts.) ; KozJow, Res. Imp. Russ. Geogr. S. 

 Exped. C. Asia (Russ.), II. 1899, pp. 107, 113, 286; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 398. 



Phasianus satscheunensis Prjevalsky, Reisen in Tibet, 1884, p. 59 (Satschen) ; Dedit, Jour, fiir Orn., il 

 p. 527 ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 333. 



Phasianus shawi^Q.€C)o\im, Ibis, 1888, p. 415 (partim, Satschen). 



Phasianus satschuensis Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds, 1903, p. 66^ (subsp. of ^. torquatus). 



Phasianus colchicus satscheuensis Hartert, Nov. Zool, XXIV. 1917, p. 452. 



Phasianus colchicus satscheunensis Rothschild, Bull, Brit. Orn. Club, XIV. 1904, p. 37. 



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