IJIMA'S COPPER PHEASANT 175 



distinct. The central tail-feathers show no grey barring in Ijimae, but only a homo- 

 genous mottling ; the white tips of the lateral tail-feathers are broken with mottling ; 

 the visible ventral surface is of a more homogenous buffy colour. 



Bill from nostril, 15 mm.; wing, 210; tail, 205; tarsus, ^6\ middle toe and 

 claw, 53. Spurs are short and blunt, 2 mm. in length. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus ijimae Dresser, Ibis, 1902, p. 656; Ogama, Annotat. Zool. Japon., VI., 1908, p. 357; Buturlin, 

 Ibis, 1908, p. 584. 



Subsp. Phasianus ijimae Dresser, Manual Palaearctic Birds, pt. IL, 1903, p. 66Z. 



Phasianus soemmerringi ijimae Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV,, 1904, p. 37; Buturlin, Ibis, 1004, 

 pp. 377, 413 ; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXI., 1907, p. 24. 



Syrmaticus soemmerringii ijimae Beebe, Zoologica, I., no. 15, 19 14, p. 283. 



