﻿BIANCHI'S 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  bianchii 
  Buturlin 
  

  

  NAMES.— 
  Subspecific 
  : 
  bianchii, 
  after 
  Dr. 
  V. 
  L. 
  Bianchi, 
  a 
  Russian 
  ornithologist. 
  English 
  : 
  Bianchi's 
  or 
  

   Upper 
  Oxus 
  Pheasant. 
  

  

  TYPE.-— 
  Locality 
  : 
  Upper 
  parts 
  of 
  Oxus 
  Basin. 
  Describer: 
  Buturlin. 
  Place 
  of 
  Description: 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  

   P. 
  393- 
  

  

  Subspecific 
  Characters.— 
  Like 
  chrysomelas 
  but 
  with 
  black 
  margins 
  of 
  breast 
  feathers 
  wider, 
  the 
  black 
  

   dominating 
  the 
  coppery 
  red 
  on 
  the 
  visible 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  feathers. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHICAL 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  

  

  Valley 
  of 
  the 
  Upper 
  Oxus. 
  Messrs. 
  Grum-Grzimailo 
  met 
  it 
  during 
  their 
  travels 
  

   in 
  1885 
  in 
  the 
  mountains 
  of 
  Bokhara, 
  in 
  the 
  valleys 
  of 
  Kafirnagan 
  (Dschidda-bach) 
  and 
  

   Wachsch 
  (Kurgan-Tjube). 
  On 
  the 
  north, 
  east 
  and 
  south 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  this 
  pheasant 
  is 
  

   bounded 
  by 
  ranges 
  of 
  high 
  mountains, 
  the 
  Gissar, 
  Alai, 
  Pamir 
  and 
  Hindu 
  Kush 
  

   respectively. 
  Its 
  range 
  along 
  the 
  Oxus 
  downstream 
  is 
  not 
  known, 
  nor 
  its 
  exact 
  relation 
  

   with 
  zarudnyi. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  (?) 
  Phasianus 
  chrysomelas 
  Bianchi, 
  Zur 
  Ornis 
  der 
  westlichen 
  Auslaiifer 
  des 
  Pamir 
  und 
  des 
  Alai, 
  in 
  Mel. 
  biol. 
  

   XII. 
  1886, 
  p. 
  677 
  (Kafirnagan, 
  Wachsch.) 
  ; 
  (?) 
  Zarudny, 
  Orn. 
  Faun. 
  Transcasp., 
  1896, 
  p. 
  480 
  (? 
  partim, 
  Karki). 
  

   Phasianus 
  chrysomelas 
  bianchii 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  393 
  (Upper 
  Oxus) 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1908, 
  p. 
  585, 
  589. 
  

   Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  bianchii 
  Hartert, 
  Nov. 
  Zool. 
  XXIV. 
  1917, 
  p. 
  450. 
  

  

  93 
  

  

  