MANCHURIAN RING-NECKED PHEASANT 



Phasianus colchicus pallasi Rothschild 



Names. — Subspecific : /^//^i-z, after P. S. Pallas, 1741-1811, the eminent German naturalist and traveller. 

 English : Manchurian Ring-necked Pheasant ; Sungarian Pheasant ; Ussurian Pheasant ; Alph^raky's Pheasant. 



Type, — Locality : The lower Sidemi River, Ussuriland. Describer : Lord Rothschild. Place of Description : 

 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIIL 1903, p. 43. 



SUBSPECIFIC Characters. — This form differs from karpowi and torquatiLS in possessing a wider and quite 

 complete white collar, and in the general lighter coloration of the plumage. From hagenbecki it is distinguished 

 by the presence of a white spot under the ear-coverts, and the black margins of the breast-feathers are less 

 distinct. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



Northern and Central Manchuria, and Ussuriland from the Amur River south to 

 the shore of the Japan Sea. 



GENERAL ACCOUNT 



A perfect volley of names has eclipsed this form, due to snap descriptions of single 

 birds from uncertain localities. The Corean bird and Eastern Chinese Ring-neck seem 

 to offer slight distinctions, but even hagenbecki living 1500 miles away to the west, 

 across the whole expanse of Mongolia, is almost indistinguishable. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus colchicus Pallas, Zoogr., 11, 181 1, p. 83 (nee Linne 1758) " varietas torque alba in Mongolorum 

 desertis!^ 



Phasianus torquatus Schrenck, Vog. Amurlande, i860, p. 402 (partim) ; Radde, Festl. Orn. Sib. Or., 1863, 

 P- 303 (partim); David et Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1877, p. 409 (partim, var. "A"); Bogdanow, Catal. Avium Imp. 

 Ross., L 1884, p. 21; Taczanowski, Fauna Orn. Siber. Or., in M^m. Acad. St. Petersb., ser. 7, XXXIX. p. 785 ; 

 Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 331 (partim); Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds, 1903, p. 665 (partim) ; 

 Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, II. 1897, p. 24 (partim). 



Phasianus torquatus mongolicus Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XII. 1901, p. 21 (nee Brandt, 1844). Later 

 withdrawn by the author. 



Phasianus torquatus pallasi Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XI 1 1. 1903, p. 43. 



Phasianus hagenbecki Tegetmeier, Field, CI. 1903, p. 775 ; Tegetmeier, Field, CI I., p. 232 ; Tegetmeier, 

 Pheasants, 1904, p. 190. 



Phasianus alpherakyi Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 399. 



Phasianus alpheraky ussuriensis, Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 403. 



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

 1917. p. 452. 



Phasianus torquatus alpherakyi Ingram, Ibis, 1909, p. 461. 



Przewalski writes that in the Ussuri Valley the pheasants are commonest about 

 Lake Hanka, and the southern coasts of the Japanese Sea from Possiete Bay as far as 

 St. Olga, and even further. They usually are found in the vicinity of cultivated land, 



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