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Show 1870.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON NEW PHEASANTS. 403 mais and birds, brought by Mr. Robert Shaw from the distant province of Yarkand, Eastern Turkestan. Mr. Shaw, although perhaps not the first European who has penetrated this country, is certainly, I believe, the only Englishman who has succeeded in getting away from it with his head on his shoulders. There were but few species brought by him : among the mammals there are some probably new to science ; I hope to give a list of them shortly. Of birds there were only five specimens, four Pheasants and one Tetraogallus himalayensis. The Pheasants represent two new species, which I propose to call P. shawii and P. insignis. They belong to the true Phasianus, and may be described as follows. PHASIANUS SHAWII, sp. nov. Pileo summo nitide viridi; collo postico et gutture toto, genis et colli lateribuspurpurascente et viridi variantibus; dorso summo aureo-metallico,plumis macula apicali saturate indigotica notatis ; dorso imo saturate castaneo, albo et nigro parum variegato et maculis paucis indigoticis notato, sub certa luce viridi nitente; tectricibus supracaudalibus saturate castaneis unicoloribus, scapularibus aureo-castaneis, dorso proximis albo et nigro conspicue fasciatis : tectricibus alarum fere albis, majoribus late castaneo marginatis : remigibus pallide brunneis, secundariis albo marginatis ; interioribus rufo marginatis, primariis intus albo fasciatis, extus albo lavatis et variegatis : cauda rufo-brunnea irregulariter nigro fasciata, subtus albo et nigro variegata : pectore superiore metallice aureo-castaneo, plumis omnibus indigotica marginatis : pectore reliquo aureo-castaneo saturatiore ; hypochondriis aureis nitente purpureo terminatis : abdomine sordide brunneo, nigricante: rostro fiavido. Top of head and occiput brown, changeable to purple and green in different lights ; rest of head, throat, and neck green, changing to blue and purple. No white ring round the neck. Feathers of upper part of back black at base running about two-thirds the length; shaft and adjacent part of middle of the feather white ; between the black and the metallic golden brown edging is dull chestnut; each feather tipped with metallic blue. Scapulars, for the most part, chestnut, with small spots of metallic blue at tbe tip ; bases of the feathers grey, shaft and centre white; between this white and the brown edging a bar of black. Shoulder white, a few feathers variegated with black, principally in the centre of the feathers. Some of the greater coverts long and broadly margined with chestnut. Secondaries pale brown, outer web slightly washed with rufous on the edge, mottled in the centre with fulvous and black. Rump chestnut-red, covered in some lights with greenish reflections ; the ends of the feathers, which are very long, hiding the upper coverts, deep unchangeable red. Feathers of the upper part of the breast broad (with a rich blue spot in the centre at tip), deep rich chestnut, margined with brilliant blue. Feathers of lower part of the breast broader, and rather lighter in colour, bordered also with blue. Flanks golden brown, with a brilliant dark blue spot in the centre at |
