no A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



either side with black ; remaining tail-feathers dull chestnut with similar bars ; in all 

 the tail-feathers the markings are irregular and somewhat mottled, giving a mottled 

 appearance to the whole. 



Below, the chin and throat are pale huffish, obsoletely barred with dark brown ; 

 forehead and upper breast with bolder bars of black and black centres, and washed with 

 a pinky reddish tinge ; lower breast, flanks and abdomen dull greyish-buff, with 

 numerous faint vermiculations of grey brown, and with visible centres of deep chestnut- 

 brown ; under tail coverts the same marked with chestnut. Three females from Chang 

 Youn, in China, are more richly coloured above than any of the more western birds, but 

 at the same time have practically no dark markings on the lower breast and abdomen ; 

 the flanks and thigh coverts are, however, fully as boldly marked as the other birds. 

 (My own notes state that the facial skin, legs and feet are pale lead-grey. — W. B.) 



Measurements : bill from gape, 33 mm.; wing, 198-1 to 208-3 5 tail, 246-4 to 271-8; 

 tarsus, 6o'9 to 66 mm. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus elegans Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), VI. 1870, p. 312 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 

 p. 670 (Yun-ling Mts., W. Sze-cheun) ; Elliot, Mono. Phas., II. 1872, pi. VIII. (text) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1888, p. 315 ; 

 Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 329 ; Grant, Hand-list Game-birds, II. 1897, p. 31 ; Blanford, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Birds, IV. 1898, p. 81 ; Oates, Man. Game-birds, I. 1898, p. 299; Styan, Ibis, 1899, p. 298; Davies, 

 Ibis, 1901, p. 408 ; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 411 ; Harrington, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., XIX. 1909, p. 301 ; 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1912, p. 554 ; Ingram, Nov. Zool., XIX. 1912, p. 271 ; Bailey, Geog. Jour,, XXXIX. 1912, p. 346; 

 Bailey, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXII. 1913, p. 367 ; Bangs and Phillips, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LVIII. 

 No. 6, 1914, p. 269; Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXV. No. 3, 1918, p. 358. 



Phasianus sladeni Anders, MS. ; Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, pp. 404-8; Anders, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1871, p. 214 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. London, 1871, p. 387 ; David et Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1877, p. 411 ; 

 Anders, Birds W. Yunnan, 1878, p. 671. 



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

 1917, p. 451. 



Phasianus siichschanensis Bianchi, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., V. ser. T. XXIV. No. i & 2c, 1906, p. 83 ; 

 Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, p. 574. 



