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Show 584 PROF. GIGLlOLI AND COUNT T. SALVADORI ON [Dec. 6, 11. PICA RUSTICA (Scop.). Pica caudata, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 373 (1877). Pica pica, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M . iii. p. 62 (1877). a. Olga Bay, September 1879. An adult specimen, in no respects differing from European birds. 12. PHASIANUS TORQUATUS, Gm. Phasianus torquatus, Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. pl. v. ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 409 (1877, Corea). a. 3 (adult). Possiette Bay, October 1879. b. 3 (juv.). Fusan, August 4th, 1880. c. 2 • Fusan, August 4 th, 1880. The first specimen is in the perfect plumage of the fully adult bird ; the forehead is dark bottle-green, the summit of the head light olive without dark markings; the whitish eyebrows are well marked, and the white collar is complete and very wide (about an inch in front), its feathers being slightly margined with greenish black, especially at the back. The flanks are of a richer ochraceous than in the usual North China specimens, from which it otherwise does not differ. Specimen 6 is a young bird in the ordinary garb of young Pheasants moulting. It shows the following peculiarities:-1st. Not a few feathers of the neck and breast are of a reddish chestnut, some of them show violet reflections on their edges. 2nd. Two feathers on the rump are black, with a green apical border and irregular whitish ochraceous stripes, exactly as can be seen in P. torquatus from China. 3rd. Some of the feathers on the inferior part of the cervix show:-an apical triangular mark, a narrow black edging on each side, next a reddish-brown band interrupted by the apical mark already mentioned, a horseshoe-shaped band, a narrower one of ochraceous colour, and finally the median black is divided by the light-coloured stem. 4th. Two of the scapular feathers have chestnut- coloured margins with a black band followed by a light ochraceous one and a third narrow one black, the central portion being grey variegated with black. The tail is very short, formed of narrow rectrices barred with black, reddish chestnut and grey, and spotted with black. Specimen c is in the ordinary garb of the female, iu which we find noticeable :-1st. The feathers at the base of the neck in front and behind of a reddish chestnut colour with lighter edges, and a V-like black mark on the posterior feathers, and a crescentic black mark on the anterior ones. 2nd. The reddish tail-feathers with black stripes variegated with grey in the middle. From an attentive examination of the last two specimens, it appears to us very probable that they belong to the well-known P. torquatus, for the young male shows feathers on the rump, scapulars, and inferior cervix similar to those of the last-mentioned species. Also Pere David gives Corea as possessing the common Ring-necked Pheasant, and we can now fully confirm his assertion. |