﻿KOBDO 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  hagenbecki 
  Rothschild 
  

  

  Names. 
  — 
  Subspecific 
  : 
  hagenbecki, 
  after 
  Carl 
  Hagenbeck, 
  the 
  German 
  live 
  animal 
  collector. 
  English 
  : 
  Kobdo 
  

   or 
  Hagenbeck's 
  Pheasant. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Locality 
  : 
  Kobdo 
  Valley. 
  Describer, 
  Lord 
  Rothschild. 
  Place 
  of 
  Description: 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn* 
  

   Club, 
  XII. 
  1901, 
  p. 
  20. 
  

  

  Subspecific 
  Characters. 
  — 
  Very 
  close 
  to 
  pallasi, 
  which 
  occurs 
  1500 
  miles 
  to 
  the 
  east, 
  but 
  usually 
  

   lacking 
  the 
  white 
  spot 
  under 
  the 
  ear-coverts, 
  while 
  the 
  black 
  edges 
  of 
  the 
  breast-feathers 
  are 
  wider. 
  From 
  

   mongolicus 
  it 
  is 
  separated 
  by 
  only 
  a 
  single 
  range 
  of 
  mountains 
  to 
  the 
  west, 
  but 
  these 
  pheasants 
  are 
  quite 
  typical 
  of 
  

   the 
  two 
  groups, 
  hagenbecki 
  of 
  the 
  grey-rumped, 
  and 
  mongolicus 
  of 
  the 
  red-rumped 
  birds. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHICAL 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  

  

  Extreme 
  western 
  Mongolia, 
  in 
  the 
  Kobdo 
  Valley, 
  Karra-ussu, 
  and 
  the 
  Achit-Nor, 
  

   north 
  of 
  the 
  Ektag 
  Altai 
  Mountains. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  hagenbecki 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XII. 
  1901, 
  p. 
  20; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  

   XIII. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  63 
  (in 
  London) 
  ; 
  Dresser, 
  Manual 
  Palae. 
  Birds, 
  1903, 
  p. 
  666; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  

   1903 
  (2), 
  p. 
  2 
  ; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Field, 
  CI. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  775 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  405 
  ; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Pheasants, 
  4th 
  ed. 
  

   1904, 
  p. 
  190; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1908, 
  p. 
  580. 
  

  

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

   Game-birds, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  101 
  ; 
  Hartert, 
  Nov. 
  Zool., 
  XXIV. 
  1917, 
  p. 
  452. 
  

  

  ? 
  Phasianus 
  alaschanicus 
  Alph6raky 
  and 
  Bianchi, 
  Ann. 
  Mus. 
  Zool. 
  St. 
  Petersb, 
  XII. 
  1908, 
  p. 
  452 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  

   Ibis, 
  1908, 
  pp. 
  452, 
  579. 
  

  

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