﻿NORTHERN 
  CAUCASIAN 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  septentrionalis 
  Lorenz 
  

  

  NAMES.— 
  Subspecific 
  : 
  septentrionalis, 
  Latin, 
  septentrionalis, 
  northern. 
  English 
  : 
  North 
  Caucasian 
  or 
  

   Astrakhan 
  Pheasant. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Locality 
  : 
  Kuban, 
  Terek. 
  Describer 
  : 
  Th. 
  C. 
  Lorenz. 
  Place 
  of 
  Description 
  : 
  Journal 
  fur 
  

   Ornithologie, 
  1888, 
  p. 
  571. 
  

  

  Subspecific 
  Characters.— 
  Male 
  : 
  Greenish 
  gloss 
  dominant 
  on 
  black 
  markings 
  of 
  mantle 
  and 
  breast; 
  

   general 
  colouring 
  paler, 
  more 
  of 
  a 
  golden 
  red. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHICAL 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  northernmost 
  of 
  the 
  several 
  colchicus 
  forms. 
  It 
  inhabits 
  the 
  basins 
  of 
  

   the 
  Kuma, 
  Terek, 
  Sulak 
  and 
  Kuban 
  Rivers, 
  ranging 
  up 
  to 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  two 
  thousand 
  

   to 
  twenty-five 
  hundred 
  feet, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  lowlands 
  it 
  extends 
  to 
  the 
  northward 
  along 
  the 
  

   western 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  Caspian 
  Sea 
  to 
  Astrakhan 
  at 
  the 
  delta 
  of 
  the 
  Volga, 
  while 
  on 
  the 
  

   south 
  it 
  reaches 
  almost 
  to 
  the 
  Apsheron 
  Peninsula. 
  In 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  Northern 
  

   Caucasia 
  from 
  Stavropol 
  to 
  Georgievsk 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  completely 
  exterminated 
  late 
  in 
  the 
  

   nineteenth 
  century. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  Pallas, 
  Zoogr. 
  II. 
  181 
  1, 
  p. 
  83 
  ; 
  Lorenz, 
  Beitr. 
  Ornith. 
  Nordseite 
  Kankas. 
  1887, 
  p. 
  56 
  ; 
  

   Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus. 
  XXII. 
  1893, 
  p. 
  320 
  (partim; 
  cum 
  colchicus); 
  Grant, 
  Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  Vol. 
  II. 
  

   1897, 
  p. 
  9 
  (partim; 
  cum 
  colchicus) 
  ; 
  Dresser, 
  Man. 
  Palae. 
  Birds, 
  II. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  658 
  (partim 
  ; 
  cum 
  colchicus). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  L., 
  subsp. 
  septentrionalis 
  Lorenz, 
  Jour, 
  fur 
  Orn. 
  1888, 
  p. 
  571 
  (Kuban, 
  Terek). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  septentrionalis 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIV. 
  1904, 
  p. 
  37 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  

   p. 
  385 
  (basins 
  of 
  Kuban, 
  Terek 
  and 
  Kuma) 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1908, 
  pp. 
  584, 
  586 
  ; 
  Hartert, 
  Nov. 
  Zool. 
  XXIV. 
  1917, 
  

   p. 
  449. 
  

  

  82 
  

  

  