﻿MANCHURIAN 
  RING-NECKED 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colckicus 
  pallasi 
  Rothschild 
  

  

  Names. 
  — 
  Subspecific 
  : 
  pallasi, 
  after 
  P. 
  S. 
  Pallas, 
  1741-1811, 
  the 
  eminent 
  German 
  naturalist 
  and 
  traveller. 
  

   English: 
  Manchurian 
  Ring-necked 
  Pheasant; 
  Sungarian 
  Pheasant; 
  Ussurian 
  Pheasant; 
  Alpheraky's 
  Pheasant. 
  

  

  TYPE. 
  — 
  Locality 
  : 
  The 
  lower 
  Sidemi 
  River, 
  Ussuriland. 
  Describer 
  : 
  Lord 
  Rothschild. 
  Place 
  of 
  Description 
  : 
  

   Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIII. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  43. 
  

  

  SUBSPECIFIC 
  CHARACTERS. 
  — 
  This 
  form 
  differs 
  from 
  karpowi 
  and 
  torquatus 
  in 
  possessing 
  a 
  wider 
  and 
  quite 
  

   complete 
  white 
  collar, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  general 
  lighter 
  coloration 
  of 
  the 
  plumage. 
  From 
  Iiagenbecki 
  it 
  is 
  distinguished 
  

   by 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  a 
  white 
  spot 
  under 
  the 
  ear-coverts, 
  and 
  the 
  black 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  breast-feathers 
  are 
  less 
  

   distinct. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHICAL 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  

  

  Northern 
  and 
  Central 
  Manchuria, 
  and 
  Ussuriland 
  from 
  the 
  Amur 
  River 
  south 
  to 
  

   the 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  Japan 
  Sea. 
  

  

  GENERAL 
  ACCOUNT 
  

  

  A 
  perfect 
  volley 
  of 
  names 
  has 
  eclipsed 
  this 
  form, 
  due 
  to 
  snap 
  descriptions 
  of 
  single 
  

   birds 
  from 
  uncertain 
  localities. 
  The 
  Corean 
  bird 
  and 
  Eastern 
  Chinese 
  Ring-neck 
  seem 
  

   to 
  offer 
  slight 
  distinctions, 
  but 
  even 
  hagenbecki 
  living 
  1500 
  miles 
  away 
  to 
  the 
  west, 
  

   across 
  the 
  whole 
  expanse 
  of 
  Mongolia, 
  is 
  almost 
  indistinguishable. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colckicus 
  Pallas, 
  Zoogr., 
  II. 
  181 
  1, 
  p. 
  83 
  (nee 
  Linne 
  1758) 
  " 
  varietas 
  torque 
  alba 
  in 
  Mongolorum 
  

   desertis." 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  torquatus 
  Schrenck, 
  Vog. 
  Amurlande, 
  1860, 
  p. 
  402 
  (partim) 
  ; 
  Radde, 
  Festl. 
  Orn. 
  Sib. 
  Or., 
  1863, 
  

   p. 
  303 
  (partim); 
  David 
  et 
  Oustalet, 
  Ois. 
  Chine, 
  1877, 
  p. 
  409 
  (partim, 
  var. 
  "A") 
  ; 
  Bogdanow, 
  Catal. 
  Avium 
  Imp. 
  

   Ross., 
  I. 
  1884, 
  p. 
  21 
  ; 
  Taczanowski, 
  Fauna 
  Orn. 
  Siber. 
  Or., 
  in 
  Mem. 
  Acad. 
  St. 
  Petersb., 
  ser. 
  7, 
  XXXIX. 
  p. 
  785 
  ; 
  

   Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXII. 
  1893, 
  p. 
  331 
  (partim); 
  Dresser, 
  Manual 
  Palae. 
  Birds, 
  1903, 
  p. 
  665 
  (partim) 
  ; 
  

   Grant, 
  Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  II. 
  1897, 
  p. 
  24 
  (partim). 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  torquatus 
  mongolicus 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XII. 
  1901, 
  p. 
  21 
  (nee 
  Brandt, 
  1844). 
  Later 
  

   withdrawn 
  by 
  the 
  author. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  torquatus 
  pallasi 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIII. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  43. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  hagenbecki 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Field, 
  CI. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  775; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Field, 
  CIL, 
  p. 
  232; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  

   Pheasants, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  190. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  alpherakyi 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  399. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  alpheraky 
  ussuriensis, 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  403. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  pallasi 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIV. 
  1904, 
  p. 
  37 
  ; 
  Hartert, 
  Nov. 
  Zool., 
  XXIV., 
  

   1917, 
  p. 
  452. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  torquatus 
  alpherakyi 
  Ingram, 
  Ibis, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  461. 
  

  

  Przewalski 
  writes 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  Ussuri 
  Valley 
  the 
  pheasants 
  are 
  commonest 
  about 
  

   Lake 
  Hanka, 
  and 
  the 
  southern 
  coasts 
  of 
  the 
  Japanese 
  Sea 
  from 
  Possiete 
  Bay 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  

   St. 
  Olga, 
  and 
  even 
  further. 
  They 
  usually 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  cultivated 
  land, 
  

  

  VOL. 
  Ill 
  113 
  Q 
  

  

  