CHAPTER XV. 



II EASANTS ADA I' TED TO 

 (COKTINUKD). 



THE OOYEKT 



THE SDNGARIAN PHEASANT (PIIASIANUS 

 ALPIIERAKYI). 



HIS beautiful plieasant inliabits the uorth central 

 ]iarts of j\[aucliun'a aud probalily tlie uortli-east of 

 ^fougolia, and aecurJiuLi- to the account oiveii by 

 ifr. Jiuturlin in his excellent article on the true 

 plieasaiits published in the Ihis, 190 t, it is abundant in 

 the middle Suno-ari. ( Jwint;' to soiiu' confusion which 

 arose with regard to the natninjj' of this species, Mr. 

 Enhirlin found it necessary to give it a new name; he therefore 

 called it ;i,f(er the well-known J'nssian zoologist, ,Mr. S. X. 

 AlpluM-a.ky, who sent the fii'st specimen to him for descri]ition. 

 Unfortuimtelv the Snngarian ]:)heasant was desci'ilied and 

 figured iu the fourth edition of this book under the name of 

 liagenbeck's pheasmit, a distinct variety, the ty]ie specimen 

 of ^\'llich is in the Triug i\LusiMim. At a meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club on November i^U, 1901, the Hon. 

 A\'^alti'r Rothschild exhibited this specimen, to whicdi the name 

 of /' JiiiijciihefL-i was gi\'i-i\, lie having received it from 

 Mr. (I. IIaL;-eiiljeck, and its halntat was stated as the K(.)bdo 

 Valley, X.W. Mongolia. 



In A])i-il, l9()o, ;i largeconsignmeiit of Smigaria,n pheasants, 

 in :i, frozen condition, j-eached tin.' Eondon market vi'i the 

 Siberian Railway, aud bv the kimlness of Mr. t'arstany I 



