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type of berezowskyi and in the worn plumage of summer birds. The colour of the chest 

 and breast is also variable ; sometimes these parts are so strongly washed with green 

 and the feathers have such wide dark-green edges, that they remind one strongly of 

 P. colchicus vlangalii — which is, of course, very different on the upperside. More often 

 there is hardly any or very little green on the chest and breast, except along the middle 

 of the latter. 



''Among the Tsin-ling males are specimens which agree absolutely with others 

 collected in Kansu by Russian explorers and received from the museums in St. Petersburg 

 and from the late Th. Lorenz in Moscow, others which agree with the type of beresowskyi 

 and with chonensis, as well as with holdereri, as far as I remember, having seen the 

 latter some years ago, and judging from the description of Schalow. With regard to 

 that, it is remarkable that the author named a bird shot on the same day, and therefore 

 not far away — as one does not travel fast in those mountains — P. strauchiT 



We know little of Strauch's Pheasant, except what Przewalski tells us : "The bird 

 inhabits the wooded parts of the Kansu Mountains, up to an absolute height of 10,000 

 feet. It appears to be most numerous in the Tetunga and Buguk-gol valleys, but higher 

 up these rivers, where woods are scarce, it disappears. 



"In voice and habits it does not differ from P. torquatus and P. vlangalii. The 

 breeding season commences in March or April, and lasts until the middle of July. 

 The earliest young we obtained on the 23rd of June. The number of young varies from 

 six to ten, and sometimes even twelve ; they are always accompanied by both parents, 

 and very often the male bird defends the young even more vigorously than the female." 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus strauchi Przewalski, Mongolia, II. 1876, p. 119 ; Przewalski, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., II. 1877, 

 p. 417; Przewalski, Reisen in Tibet, 1884, p. 59 (Kansu); Seebohm, Ibis, 1888, p. 314; Seebohm, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1888, p. 267 (extends south to M.) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1888, p. 314 ; Berezowskyi and Bianchi, Birds 

 of the Kansu Exped., Potanin (Russ.), p. 18 (pt. Hoo-sian) ; Pleske, Bull, Ac. St. Petersb., XIII. 1892, p. 296 

 (Sining Mountains, Tatung Mts., and River, and Mts. of Amdoa) ; Grant, Cat. Game-birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, 

 p. 330; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, II. 1897, p. 29 ; Grant, Hand-list Game-birds, 1899, Vol. I. p 38; Buturlin, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 410 ; Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, p. 575. 



Phasianus torquatus David et Oustalet, Ois. Chin., 1877, p. 409 (pt. var. " C," Chensi meridional) ; Berezowski 

 and Bianchi, Birds of the Kansu Exped., Potanin (Russ.), p. 18 (W. and E. Ordos) ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XXII. 1893, p. 331 (partim); Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds, 1913, p. 665 (partim). 



Phasianus decoUatus David et Oustalet, Ois. Chin., 1877, p. 411 (partim, S. Shensi) ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XXII. 1893 (partim; Sinling Mts.). 



Phasianus holdereri Schalow, Jour, fiir Orn., 1901, p. 414 (N. China) ; Parrot, in Wiao, Ergb. der Exp. 

 Tilchner, nach China u. Tibet, 1903-1908, Bond X, i Tiel, p. 132; Thayer and Bangs, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 Harvard, XL. 1912, p. 140; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 406 ; Alpheraky and Bianchi, Ann. Mus., St. Petersb., XII. 

 p. 447. 



Phasianus berezowskyi Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XII. 1901, p. 20 (Hui-Tsian) ; Dresser, Man. Palae 

 Birds, 1903, p. 663 (Subsp. oi strauchi)] Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 411. 



Phasianus colchicus strauchi Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV. 1904, p. 37 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., XXIV. 

 1917, p. 451. 



Phasianus decoUatus, var. Bianchi, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., V. 1906, sen XXIV. t.n. i Sc 2, pp. 83, 90 ; Bianchi, 

 Aves Exped. Kozlowi, 1907, p. 201 (var. indiv.). 



Phasianus, decoUatus strauchi Bianchi, Bull. Ac. Sc. St. Petersb., V. 1906, ser. XXIV., t.n. i& 2, p. 90 (Russ.), 

 (pt. var. from Soho-choto ad. ped. sept. jug. Nan-Schan) ; Alpheraky and Bianchi, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb., XII. 



1908, p. 447. 



Phasianus decoUatus decoUatus Alpheraky and Bianchi, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb., XII. 1908, p. 451. 



Phasianus decoUatus berezowskyi Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, p. 578. 



Phasianus strajichi sohokhotensis Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, p. 576. 



Phasianus strauchi chonensis Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXXI. 1912, p. 16. 



