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northern birds was thus confined only to actual length, not to the relative width of the 

 interspaces and bars, which remain the same as in the other forms. In southern Honda 

 scintiilans gvdidts insensibly into soemmerringi, and the same is true in central Kiusiu 

 in regard to ijimae. 



Adult Female. — These show considerable variation, but seem, even in the most 

 northern birds, to have developed no constant node of differentiation from soemmerringi. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus {Graphophasianus) scintillans Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. His. (3), XVI L 1866, p. 150; Seebohm, 

 Birds of Japanese Empire, 1890, p. 371 ; Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, L 1899, p. 38 ; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. 

 Mus., L I90i,p. 58; Tegetmeier, Pheasants, 1904, p. 203; Ogama, Annotat. Zool. Japon. 1908, p. 356; Buturlin, 

 Ibis, 1908, p. 584. 



Phasianus soemmerringi, var. scintillans Elliot, Mon. Phas., II. 1872, pi. XIII. ; Grant, Cat. Game- 

 birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 337 ; Grant, Hand-book Game-birds, II. 1897, p. 36 ; Dresser, Manual Palaearctic 

 Birds, pt. II. 1903, p. 66y ; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, pp. 377, 412 ; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV. 1904, pp. 36, 

 37; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXI. 1907, p. 24; Ingram, Ibis, 1908, p. 168. 



Syrmaticus soem^nerringii scintillans Beebe, Zoologica, I. no. 15, 1914, p. 283. 



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