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Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the 
[Ibis, 
violet fringes and has rather narrow bars. The bird weighed 
only If lb., but was in good condition. Dissection showed 
one testis and wliat looks like a diseased ovary. The parts 
have been preserved in spirit. Culmen 0’90 in., wing 
8*60 in., tarsus 2'85 in. There are no spurs. 
The third bird, which was sent to me by my collector 
after I had left Chin wan gtao, is labelled a male, but it is 
of the size of a female, without spurs. There are traces of 
female plumage on the head and upper parts and the deep 
yellow flank-feathers are plain. 
188. Phasianus colchicus pallasi Rothschild. 
An example from Chihfeng in north Chihli, a locality 
adjoining the Gobi desert and about 190 miles as the crow 
flies north of Chinwangtao, has pale huffish-red scapulars, 
the back very blue-grey, the collar moderately broad, a white 
ear-spot, the central and the next two pairs of rectrices with 
a small terminal white spot, and the tail much washed with 
grey. Two other examples from the same place/however, 
are much the same as Chinwangtao birds except that they 
have the eyebrow much more developed. A female is much 
paler than that of P. karpoivi. The Chihfeng country is 
probably on the southern limit of P. c. pallasi. I am much 
indebted for these specimens to Mr. A. L. Hall, who kindly 
sent me some by post and brought down others himself. 
189. Pucrasia xanthospila Gray. 
Pucrasia xanthospila D. & O. p. 407, pi. 104. 
The North China Pucras Pheasant is occasionally found 
in the Shanhaikuan and Chinwangtao markets. I have 
seen one or two males nearly every winter in the latter 
market and two females; one of the females was said to 
have been brought from a locality which is about sixty miles 
to the north of Chinwangtao. This Pheasant apparently is 
not found in the near vicinity of Chinwangtao, but only in 
the wooded country at least thirty miles north of the port. 
Reeves’s Pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) occurs in the 
mountains surrounding the Imperial Tombs (Tung Ling) 
