KOBDO PHEASANT 



Phasianiis colchicus hagenbecki Rothschild 



Names. — Subspecific: hagenbecki,z.itQV Carl Hagenbeck, the German live animal collector. English: Kobdo 

 or Hagenbeck's Pheasant. 



Type. — Locality: Kobdo Valley. Describer, Lord Rothschild. Place of Description: Bull. Brit. Orn* 

 Club, XII. 1 90 1, p. 20. 



Subspecific Characters. — Very close to pallasi, which occurs 1500 miles to the east, but usually 

 lacking the white spot under the ear-coverts, while the black edges of the breast-feathers are wider. From 

 mongolicus it is separated by only a single range of mountains to the west, but these pheasants are quite typical of 

 the two groups, hagenbecki of the grey-rumped, and mongolicus of the red-rumped birds. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



Extreme western Mongolia, in the Kobdo Valley, Karra-ussu, and the Achit-Nor, 

 north of the Ektag Altai Mountains. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus hagenbecki Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XII. 1901, p. 20; Tegetmeier, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 XIIL 1903, p. 63 (in London); Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds, 1903, p. ^66\ Tegetmeier, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,. 

 1903 (2), p. 2 ; Tegetmeier, Field, CI. 1903, p. 775 ; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 405 ; Tegetmeier, Pheasants, 4th ed. 

 1904, p. 190; Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, p. 580. 



Phasianus colchicus hagenbecki Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV. 1904, p. 37 ; Millais, Nat. Hist. Brit. 

 Game-birds, 1909, p. loi ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., XXIV. 1917, p. 452. 



"^Phasianus alaschanicus Alph^raky and Bianchi, Ann. Mus, Zool. St. Petersb., XII. 1908, p. 452 ; Buturlin 

 Ibis, 1908, pp. 452, 579. 



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