﻿PRINCE 
  OF 
  WALES'S 
  PHEASANT 
  89 
  

  

  continue 
  to 
  live 
  until 
  exterminated 
  by 
  the 
  constant 
  inroads 
  of 
  cultivation 
  of 
  

   mankind. 
  

  

  Zarudny 
  found 
  these 
  birds 
  in 
  large 
  numbers 
  on 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  rivers 
  connected 
  

   with 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Atrek. 
  The 
  islands 
  and 
  the 
  neighbouring 
  banks 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  

   a 
  dense 
  growth 
  of 
  reeds, 
  or 
  more 
  rarely 
  are 
  barren, 
  grassy 
  steppes, 
  and 
  here 
  the 
  

   pheasants 
  make 
  their 
  home 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  troops 
  of 
  wild 
  boar, 
  antelopes 
  and 
  bustards. 
  

   The 
  chief 
  enemies 
  of 
  the 
  pheasants 
  are 
  jackals, 
  wild 
  cats 
  and 
  occasionally 
  cheetahs 
  and 
  

   leopards. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  principalis 
  Sclater, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  1885, 
  p. 
  322, 
  pi. 
  XXII 
  (Bala-Murghab, 
  N.W. 
  

   Afghanistan); 
  Sclater, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  1887, 
  p. 
  502; 
  Menzb., 
  Ibis, 
  1887, 
  p. 
  301 
  (Murghab, 
  Tejend 
  and 
  

   Dushak 
  Rivers 
  and 
  Kaakuk 
  Dist.) 
  ; 
  Scully, 
  M. 
  and 
  B. 
  N. 
  Afghan., 
  1887, 
  p. 
  86; 
  Seebohm, 
  Ibis, 
  1887, 
  p. 
  171 
  ; 
  

   Sclater, 
  Ibis, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  584 
  (Upper 
  Murghab) 
  ; 
  Zarudny, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Mosc, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  813 
  ; 
  Sharpe, 
  Trans. 
  Linn. 
  

   Soc. 
  1889, 
  (2), 
  Zool. 
  V., 
  p. 
  86, 
  pi. 
  vii. 
  ; 
  Radde 
  and 
  Walt, 
  Ornis, 
  1889, 
  pp. 
  89, 
  90, 
  170, 
  180 
  ; 
  Zarudny, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  

   Mosc, 
  1890, 
  p. 
  309 
  (partim) 
  (streams 
  from 
  Daragez 
  and 
  Kalat 
  Mountains); 
  Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXII. 
  

   I 
  %93> 
  P- 
  3 
  2 
  S 
  ; 
  Dresser, 
  Birds, 
  Eur. 
  SuppL, 
  1895-96, 
  p. 
  321, 
  pi.; 
  Zarudny, 
  Orn. 
  F. 
  Transcap., 
  1896, 
  p. 
  477; 
  Grant 
  

   Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  1897, 
  p. 
  16; 
  Dresser, 
  Manual 
  Palae. 
  Birds, 
  II. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  660; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Bull. 
  Brit' 
  

   Orn. 
  Club, 
  1903, 
  XIV., 
  p. 
  33 
  (in 
  England); 
  Zarudny, 
  Mem. 
  Geo^r. 
  gen. 
  I.. 
  Russ. 
  G. 
  Soc, 
  XXXVI. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  76 
  ; 
  

   (Heri-rud) 
  ; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Pheasants, 
  4th 
  ed., 
  1904, 
  p. 
  192, 
  fig. 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  388 
  (Murghab 
  basin 
  and 
  

   oases 
  of 
  Mero, 
  Yelotan 
  and 
  Pandj-deh) 
  ; 
  St. 
  Quinton, 
  Field, 
  113, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  131 
  (white 
  on 
  cock's 
  neck); 
  Finn, 
  

   Avicultural 
  Mag., 
  1910, 
  I., 
  p. 
  227; 
  Beebe, 
  Rec 
  Ind. 
  Mus., 
  Vol. 
  5, 
  pt. 
  iv., 
  No. 
  27, 
  p. 
  270; 
  Pocock, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  

   London, 
  191 
  1, 
  Vol. 
  II., 
  p. 
  862 
  (experiments 
  with 
  insects); 
  Zarudny, 
  Journ. 
  fiir 
  Orn., 
  59, 
  191 
  1, 
  p. 
  204. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  komarowii 
  Bogdanow, 
  Bull. 
  Acad, 
  Sci. 
  Peters., 
  XXX. 
  1886, 
  p. 
  356 
  (Askhabad) 
  ; 
  Bogdanow, 
  Mel. 
  

   Biol., 
  XII. 
  1886, 
  p. 
  319; 
  Zarudny, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Mosc, 
  1886, 
  LXL, 
  p. 
  322 
  (Tchirin-Ichai 
  and 
  Kizil-Kan 
  

   tributaries 
  of 
  Atrek 
  River). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  principalis 
  komarowi 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  388 
  (Tejend 
  and 
  Heri-Rud 
  basins) 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  

   1908, 
  pp. 
  585, 
  587 
  ; 
  Beebe, 
  Rec. 
  Ind. 
  Mus., 
  Vol. 
  5, 
  pt. 
  iv., 
  No. 
  27, 
  p. 
  270. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  principalis 
  typicus 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1908, 
  pp. 
  585, 
  587. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  principalis 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIV. 
  1904^.37; 
  Millais, 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Brit. 
  

   Game-birds, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  105 
  ; 
  Hartert, 
  Novitates 
  Zoologicae, 
  XXIV. 
  1917, 
  p. 
  449. 
  

  

  