﻿SYR-DARIA 
  RING-NECKED 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  turcestanicus 
  Lorenz 
  

  

  NAMES.— 
  Subspecific 
  : 
  turcestanicus, 
  from 
  Turkestan. 
  English 
  : 
  Turkestan 
  or 
  Syr-Daria 
  Pheasant. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  Locality: 
  Syr-Daria. 
  Describer 
  : 
  Lorenz. 
  Place 
  of 
  Description 
  : 
  Orn. 
  Mon., 
  1896, 
  p. 
  189. 
  

  

  SUBSPECIFIC 
  CHARACTERS.— 
  Male 
  : 
  White 
  collar 
  quite 
  or 
  nearly 
  complete 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  mantle, 
  chest 
  and 
  dark 
  

   spots 
  on 
  flanks 
  with 
  bluish 
  and 
  violet 
  gloss. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHICAL 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  

  

  Russian 
  Turkestan, 
  from 
  the 
  north-eastern 
  shores 
  of 
  the 
  Aral 
  Sea, 
  south-east 
  

   along 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Syr-Daria 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  Gulcha, 
  a 
  valley 
  in 
  the 
  Alai 
  Mountains, 
  

   about 
  5,000 
  feet 
  elevation, 
  and 
  140 
  kilometres 
  south 
  of 
  Osk. 
  

  

  The 
  range 
  of 
  the 
  Syr-Daria 
  Pheasant 
  is 
  bordered 
  by 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Tian-Shan 
  and 
  

   Alai 
  Mountains 
  on 
  the 
  south-east, 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  Alai 
  and 
  Gissar 
  Mountains 
  on 
  the 
  south. 
  

   These 
  chains 
  of 
  mountains 
  separate 
  it 
  from 
  shawi, 
  bianchii 
  and 
  zerafshanicus. 
  On 
  the 
  

   west 
  the 
  Kysil-Kum 
  Desert 
  divides 
  it 
  from 
  ckrysomelas, 
  although 
  their 
  ranges 
  appear 
  

   to 
  meet 
  on 
  the 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  Aral. 
  On 
  the 
  north-east 
  the 
  Karatan, 
  Alexander 
  and 
  

   Terskentan 
  Mountains 
  form 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  its 
  range, 
  and 
  present 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  of 
  a 
  

   barrier 
  between 
  it 
  and 
  the 
  closely 
  allied 
  mongolicus. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  Lichtenstein, 
  Naturh. 
  Anh. 
  to 
  Eversmann's 
  Reisen 
  Buchar, 
  1823, 
  p. 
  133 
  (Kuwan-Darja, 
  

   Ian-Darja), 
  nee 
  Linnaeus, 
  1758); 
  Eversmann, 
  Natural 
  History 
  of 
  the 
  Orenburg 
  Country 
  (Russ.), 
  III. 
  1866, 
  p. 
  350 
  

   (var. 
  torque 
  colli 
  alba, 
  Aral). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  mongolicus 
  Sewertzow, 
  Vertic. 
  and 
  Horizont. 
  Dist. 
  of 
  Turkestan 
  Animals 
  (Russ.) 
  in 
  Trans. 
  I. 
  

   S.F.N.A.E., 
  V., 
  VIII. 
  1873, 
  p. 
  68 
  (nee 
  Brandt, 
  1844); 
  Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXII. 
  1893, 
  P- 
  328 
  (nee 
  

   Brandt) 
  (partim) 
  ; 
  Stolzmann, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Mosc, 
  I. 
  1897, 
  p. 
  78 
  (nee 
  Brandt) 
  ; 
  Dresser, 
  Manual 
  Palae. 
  Birds, 
  II. 
  

   1903, 
  p. 
  665 
  (cum 
  mongolicus). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  mongolicus 
  turcestanicus 
  Lorenz, 
  Orn. 
  Mon., 
  1896, 
  p. 
  189 
  (Syr-Daria); 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  396, 
  

   (Russian 
  Turkestan, 
  along 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Syr-Daria) 
  ; 
  Lonnberg, 
  Arkiv. 
  Zool., 
  II. 
  1905, 
  pp. 
  7-9; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  

   1908, 
  pp. 
  585, 
  589. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  mongolicus 
  bergii 
  Zarudny, 
  Mess. 
  Ornith., 
  V. 
  1916, 
  p. 
  227. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  turcestanicus 
  Hartert, 
  Nov. 
  Zool., 
  XXIV. 
  1917, 
  p. 
  451. 
  

  

  95 
  

  

  