"Person or Group" Field in List instance (Schema.xml)

hi all,
I created new List instance and I added new Field Employee to the list instance. The Employee field in the Schema.xml is like:
<Field Name="Person" ID="{f3c1416f-69dd-4172-b05f-5df45c86ee56}" DisplayName="Person" Type="UserMulti" Mult="TRUE" /></Fields>
and this work fine.
But I cant see the EntityEditor like below pic:
they are disapear.
Can anyone maybe help me?
P.S. I created one column via UI on the same list and in the SharePoint Manager 2013.
Its the same I dont see the EntityEditor and here is the Schema.xml for the test column:
<Field Type="UserMulti" DisplayName="test444" List="UserInfo" Required="FALSE" EnforceUniqueValues="FALSE" ShowField="ImnName" UserSelectionMode="PeopleAndGroups" UserSelectionScope="0"
Mult="TRUE" Sortable="FALSE" ID="{aefd55b0-3d3e-44ba-a649-82391061ca38}" SourceID="{93681c67-ca5f-4598-a412-3efee82a18d6}" StaticName="test444" Name="test444" ColName="int3" RowOrdinal="0"
/>
thank you in advance
BR
Ahmad

Hallo Mr. Sabir,
sorry I was sick and I couldn't answer you before :-(.
I use SP 2013 (and not SP 2010, maybe I must Active a feature!) and in my Schema.xml I have exacly the Schema:
<Field Name="Person"
             ID="{f3c1416f-69dd-4172-b05f-5df45c86ee56}"
             DisplayName="Person"
             Type="User"
             Required="FALSE"
             ShowField="ImnName"
             UserSelectionMode="1"
             UserSelectionScope="0"
             Group="Custom Columns"
             StaticName="MyUserColumn"
             />
srv206/Lists/CustomList/NewForm.aspx
when I open the above URL I get like below picture:
if you or other one here have/has an advice or other idea thanks in advance
BR
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SP 2013 & SPD 2013 & VS 2013 & MSSQL 2012

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