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PHASIANUS COLCHICUS. THE COMMON 

 PHEASANT. 



COMMON, RING-NECKED, AND BOHEMIAN PHEASANT. 



Fig.: 



Phasianus Colchicus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 270. 



Phasianus Colchicus. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 629. 



Common Pheasant. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Phaisan Yulgaire. Phasianus Colchicus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 453. 



Common Pheasant, Phasianus Colchicus. Selb. Illustr. I. 417. 



Phasianus Colchicus. Common Pheasant. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 166. 



Male icith the head and upper part of the neck of various 

 tints of green and blue ; the lower part of the neck and the sides 

 yelloidsh-red^ the feathers terminally margined with dark blue ; 

 those of the fore p^art of the back and the scapulars hating three 

 bands of yellowish^ blacky and red^ parallel to the edges. Fe- 

 male with the plumage greyish yellow^ variegated with black and 

 broicn, 



Male. — The Pheasant, ahhough not originally a native 

 of Britain, yet having become naturalized, and being now 



