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  A 
  MONOGRAPH 
  OF 
  THE 
  PHEASANTS 
  

  

  EARLY 
  HISTORY 
  

  

  Two 
  specimens, 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  of 
  the 
  Yellow-necked 
  Koklass 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  

   British 
  Museum 
  by 
  Sir 
  F. 
  W. 
  A. 
  Bruce 
  in 
  1864. 
  These 
  were 
  described 
  by 
  G. 
  R. 
  Gray, 
  

   and 
  figured 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  year. 
  Both 
  types 
  

   are 
  still 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  Kensington 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Two 
  years 
  before, 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Lamprey 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   publication 
  (Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1862, 
  p. 
  221), 
  where 
  he 
  speaks 
  of 
  Koklass 
  as 
  "another 
  

   kind 
  of 
  pheasant 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Tien 
  Tsin 
  market," 
  frozen 
  and 
  offered 
  for 
  sale. 
  The 
  

   imperfect 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  plumage 
  led 
  him 
  to 
  confuse 
  it 
  with 
  macrolopha. 
  

  

  P6re 
  David 
  says 
  elsewhere 
  (Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1868, 
  p. 
  210), 
  "C'est 
  moi 
  qui 
  ai 
  en 
  et 
  

   signal 
  e" 
  (en 
  1862) 
  le 
  prdmier 
  une 
  nouvelle 
  espece 
  du 
  Pucrasia 
  que 
  Mons. 
  Gray 
  a 
  nominee 
  

   P. 
  xanthospila. 
  Elle 
  a 
  6t6 
  introduite 
  en 
  France 
  par 
  notre 
  ministre 
  M. 
  Berthemy 
  en 
  

   1864." 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Euplocamus 
  pucrasia 
  Lamprey 
  (nee 
  Gray), 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1862, 
  p. 
  221. 
  

  

  Pucrasia 
  xanthospila 
  Gray, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1864, 
  p. 
  259, 
  pi. 
  XX 
  ; 
  Milne-Edw. 
  N. 
  Arch. 
  Mus. 
  Bull., 
  I. 
  1865, 
  P- 
  

   14, 
  pi. 
  I 
  ; 
  figs. 
  3 
  & 
  4 
  [N.E. 
  of 
  Pekin] 
  ; 
  Saurin, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1 
  866, 
  p. 
  437 
  [Mts. 
  of 
  N. 
  and 
  W. 
  China] 
  ; 
  David, 
  

   N. 
  Arch. 
  Mus. 
  Bull., 
  III. 
  1867, 
  p. 
  37 
  [Ta-Tchio-Chuan, 
  Jehol, 
  Oulachan] 
  ; 
  Gray, 
  List 
  Gallinae 
  Brit. 
  Mus. 
  1867, 
  

   p. 
  31 
  ; 
  David, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1868, 
  p. 
  210; 
  Gould, 
  Birds 
  Asia, 
  VII. 
  1869, 
  pi. 
  24; 
  Gray, 
  Hand-list 
  Birds, 
  II. 
  1870, 
  

   p. 
  259 
  ; 
  Swinhoe, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1871, 
  p. 
  399 
  [N.W. 
  China] 
  ; 
  David, 
  N. 
  Arch. 
  Mus. 
  Bull., 
  VII. 
  1871, 
  p. 
  11 
  [Pekin, 
  

   Mongolia, 
  Sze-chuen] 
  ; 
  Swinhoe, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1872, 
  p. 
  552 
  [Manchuria 
  to 
  Sze-chuen] 
  ; 
  Elliot, 
  Mon. 
  Phas., 
  I. 
  

   1872, 
  pi. 
  30; 
  Vekemans, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  d'Acclim. 
  1872, 
  p. 
  384; 
  Sclater, 
  Ibis, 
  1874, 
  p. 
  169; 
  David 
  and 
  Oustalet, 
  Ois 
  

   Chine, 
  1877, 
  p. 
  497, 
  pi. 
  104 
  [Manchuria 
  to 
  E. 
  Thibet]; 
  Andelle, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  d'Acclim. 
  1878, 
  p. 
  663; 
  Marshall, 
  

   Ibis, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  463 
  ; 
  Libsig, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  d'Acclim. 
  1 
  881, 
  p. 
  583 
  ; 
  Seebohm, 
  Ibis, 
  1891, 
  p. 
  380 
  [W. 
  Cze-chuen] 
  ; 
  Grant, 
  

   Cat. 
  Game-birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXII. 
  1893, 
  p. 
  315 
  ; 
  Grant, 
  Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  I. 
  1895, 
  p. 
  285 
  ; 
  Sharpe, 
  Hand- 
  

   list 
  Birds, 
  I. 
  1899, 
  p. 
  36; 
  Walton, 
  Ibis, 
  1903, 
  p. 
  32; 
  Dresser, 
  Manual 
  Palae. 
  Birds, 
  pt. 
  II. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  670; 
  Mitchell, 
  

   Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  191 
  1, 
  p. 
  521 
  ; 
  Salvador!, 
  Boll. 
  Mus. 
  Zool. 
  ed. 
  Anat. 
  Torino, 
  XXVII. 
  1912, 
  No. 
  647; 
  Courtis, 
  Ibis, 
  

   1913, 
  p. 
  15. 
  

  

  Pucrasia 
  davidiana 
  Milne-Edw., 
  N. 
  Arch. 
  Mus. 
  Bull., 
  I. 
  1865, 
  p. 
  14. 
  

  

  Pucrasia 
  meyeri 
  Oustalet, 
  Ann. 
  Sci. 
  Nat. 
  (7), 
  XII. 
  1892, 
  p. 
  316 
  [Ta-tsien-lou]. 
  

  

  Pucrasia 
  xanthospila 
  xanthospila 
  Beebe, 
  Zoologica, 
  I. 
  No. 
  15, 
  1914, 
  278 
  ; 
  Baker, 
  Jour. 
  Bombay 
  Nat. 
  His. 
  Soc. 
  

   XXV. 
  1918, 
  p. 
  541. 
  

  

  