﻿KHIVAN 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  chrysomelas 
  Sewertzow 
  

  

  NAMES.— 
  Subspecific 
  : 
  chrysomelas, 
  xpwos, 
  gold, 
  /xeXas, 
  black, 
  golden 
  black 
  or 
  dark 
  yellow, 
  referring 
  to 
  the 
  

   bird's 
  colour. 
  English 
  : 
  Khivan 
  or 
  Northern 
  Oxus 
  or 
  Aral 
  Pheasant. 
  

  

  TYPE.— 
  Locality 
  : 
  Amu-Daria. 
  Describer 
  : 
  Sewertzow. 
  Place 
  of 
  Description 
  : 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Mosc. 
  

   XLVIII. 
  1875 
  (dated 
  1874, 
  but 
  issued 
  1875), 
  p. 
  207 
  (Amu-Daria). 
  

  

  Brief 
  Description.— 
  Male 
  : 
  Breast 
  and 
  upper 
  back 
  widely 
  margined 
  with 
  black, 
  so 
  that 
  on 
  the 
  visible 
  

   portion 
  the 
  black 
  equals 
  the 
  golden 
  ground-colour 
  ; 
  flank 
  feathers 
  simply 
  emarginated 
  and 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  feathers 
  

   occupied 
  by 
  a 
  black 
  spot 
  ; 
  dark 
  bars 
  on 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  middle 
  tail-feathers 
  narrow, 
  2 
  mm. 
  or 
  less. 
  Female 
  • 
  

   Resembles 
  the 
  female 
  of 
  shawi, 
  but 
  is 
  like 
  principalis 
  in 
  having 
  the 
  black 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  plumage 
  more 
  

   strongly 
  marked. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHICAL 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  

  

  The 
  delta 
  of 
  the 
  Oxus 
  or 
  Amu-Daria 
  and 
  the 
  lower 
  parts 
  of 
  its 
  valley 
  and 
  the 
  

   oasis 
  of 
  Khiva 
  in 
  the 
  district 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  name. 
  On 
  the 
  west 
  its 
  range 
  is 
  bordered 
  

   by 
  the 
  Ust-Urt 
  Plateau 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  south 
  by 
  the 
  waterless 
  desert 
  of 
  Kara-Kum. 
  On 
  the 
  

   south-east 
  from 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Khiva 
  southward 
  it 
  is 
  replaced 
  by 
  zamdnyi, 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  

   shores 
  of 
  the 
  Aral 
  Sea 
  to 
  the 
  north 
  it 
  meets 
  somewhere 
  the 
  broad-collared 
  turcest 
  aniens. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus, 
  nova 
  sp. 
  Bogdanow, 
  Trans. 
  Soc. 
  Natur. 
  St. 
  Petersb., 
  VI. 
  1875, 
  p. 
  LXXXVI. 
  (Khiva). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  chrysomelas 
  Sewertzow, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Mosc, 
  XLVIII. 
  pt. 
  iii, 
  1875 
  (dated 
  1874, 
  but 
  issued 
  1875) 
  

   p. 
  207 
  (Amu-Daria); 
  Sewertzow, 
  Jour, 
  fur 
  Orn., 
  1875, 
  p. 
  225 
  ; 
  Sewertzow, 
  Ibis, 
  1875, 
  p. 
  493 
  (Lower 
  Amu-Daria) 
  ; 
  

   Gould, 
  Birds 
  Asia, 
  VII. 
  1876, 
  pi. 
  XXXVI. 
  ; 
  Bogdanow, 
  Consp. 
  Av. 
  Ross., 
  1884, 
  fasc. 
  I. 
  p. 
  20 
  (Amu-Daria) 
  ; 
  Seebohm, 
  

   Ibis, 
  1887, 
  p. 
  172 
  ; 
  Pleske, 
  Mem. 
  Ac. 
  St. 
  Petersb., 
  1888 
  (7), 
  XXXVI. 
  No. 
  3, 
  p. 
  48 
  (Kasalinsk) 
  ; 
  Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Birds 
  

   Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXII. 
  1893, 
  p. 
  327 
  ; 
  Zarudny, 
  Orn. 
  Faun. 
  Transcasp., 
  1896, 
  p. 
  479; 
  Dresser, 
  Manual 
  Palae. 
  Birds, 
  II. 
  

   1903, 
  p. 
  662 
  ; 
  Sharpe, 
  Hand-list 
  Birds, 
  1899, 
  Vol. 
  I., 
  p. 
  37 
  ; 
  Dresser, 
  Ibis, 
  1905, 
  p. 
  152 
  (egg) 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  

   p. 
  392 
  (Delta 
  of 
  Amu-Daria, 
  lower 
  parts 
  of 
  its 
  valley 
  and 
  oasis 
  of 
  Khiva). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  dorrandti 
  Sewertzow, 
  Jour, 
  fur 
  Orn., 
  1875, 
  p. 
  225. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  oxianus 
  Sewertzow, 
  Jour, 
  fur 
  Orn., 
  1875, 
  p. 
  225. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  insignis 
  Elliot, 
  Ibis, 
  1876, 
  p. 
  132 
  (nee 
  Elliot, 
  1870). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  chrysomelas 
  Hartert, 
  Nov. 
  Zool., 
  XXIV. 
  1917, 
  p 
  a 
  450 
  ; 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  

   XIV 
  1904, 
  p. 
  Z7- 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  chrysomelas 
  typicus 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1908, 
  pp. 
  585, 
  589. 
  

  

  94 
  

  

  