726 



SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — GALLIN^E — ALECTOROPODES. 



rump and upper tail coverts plain greenish slate-color ; tail with hroad black bars throughout. 

 Length about 2-^ feet; tail 1^; wing 9.50 inches. 9 smaller; length 2 feet or less; tail 



under 1 foot ; wing 

 8 00 inches ; feathers 

 of back with black 

 centres and usually 

 buff shaft - stripes ; 

 those of under parts 

 mostly black -barred. 

 Japan; lately intro- 

 duced and apparently 

 naturalized in Ore- 

 gon. 



P. scemmer'ingi. 

 (To the noted Ger- 

 man anatomist and 

 physiologist, Samuel 

 Thomas von SiJm- 

 m e r i n g, Jan. 18, 

 I755-March2,1830.) 

 CoppKR Pheasant. 

 SoMMERiNG Pheas- 

 ant. Adult $ : 

 Above, including 

 ^ head and neck, chest- 

 nut, shot with pur- 

 ple and gold ; rump 

 btreaked with white ; 

 tail chestnut, tipped 

 with black, the mid- 

 dle feathers barred 

 throughout with 

 darker chestnut, 

 black, and light mot- 

 tling, the three kinds 

 of marking in regu- 

 lar series ; the chest- 

 nut feathers of under parts with pale margins ; primaries and secondaries blackish, mottled 

 and margined irregularly with rufous. Length 3 oi: 4 feet ; tail 2^-3 feet ; wing 9.00 inches. 

 Adult 9 : Much smaller ; length about 1^ feet ; wing and tail about 8.50 inches ; coloration 

 lighter and more varied than in the $ ; most of the tail-feathers plain chestnut with subter- 

 minal black bar and white tip. A large handsome Pheasant, the $ very long-tailed and 

 short- winged ; native of some of the Japanese islands, lately introduced and apparently natural- 

 ized in Oregon. 



Fig. 488. —Turkey. (From Lewis.) 



Family MELEAGRIDID^ : Turkeys. 



Head and upper neck naked, carunculate ; in our species with a dewlap on the tliroat, and 

 erectile process on the crown. Tarsi naked, scutellate before and behind, spurred in the $. 

 Tail broad, rounded, of 14-18 feathers. Plumage compact, lustrous ; in our species with a 



