334 PHASIANID^. 



the chest very slightly glossed with pink, and the margins of the 

 feathers more widely edged all round with purplish green. Total 

 length 26-8 inches, wing 8-9, tail 15-8, tarsus 2-7. {Mus.H.Seeholim.) 

 Hah. Formosa. 



16. Phasianus versicolor. 



Phasianus versicolor, Vieill Gal. Ois. ii. p. 23, pi. 205 (1825) ; Gray, 

 in Griff, ed. Cuv. in. p. 23, pi. (1829) ; Temm. PI. Col v. pis. (i, 

 7 [nos 486, 493] (1830) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 496 (1831) ; 

 Schhiz, Nat. Abbild. Vog. p. 251, pi. 96 (1833); Jard. Nat. Lib., 

 Orn. iv. p. 200, pis. xiv. & xv. (1834) ; Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 497 

 (1845); Schinz, Nat. Vog. p. 150, pi. 72 (1853) ; Cassin, Perry's 

 Evp Jap. ii. p. 223, pi. 1 (1856) [Simoda] ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. 

 pi 40 (1857) ; Sclat. ^ Wolf, Zool. Sket. i. pi. 38 (1861) ; Sclat. 

 List Phas. p. 4 (1863); id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 116; Graij, List 

 Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 28 (1867) ; id. Eand-l. B. ii. p. 258 

 (1870); Elliot, Mo7iog. Phas. ii. pi. ix. [text] (1872); Swii^h. 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 462 [Hakodadi] ; Blakist. ^- Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 226 

 [Hondo]; Seebohm, Ibis, 1888, p. 313; id. B. Jap. p. 370 (1890) 

 [Japanese Is. except Yezo]. 



Phasianus diardi, Temm. PI. Col. v. text to P. versicolor (1830). 



Adult male. Distinguished from all other species of the genus by 

 having the whole of the chest, breast, and flanks uniform dark 

 green ; the top of the head is bronze-green as in P. torquatus ; the 

 mantle dark green, shot with purple and marked with lines of bull', 

 mostly following the shape of the feathers ; the upper tail-coverts 

 are uniform greenish slate, without any rust-coloured feathers on 

 each side as is the case in all the other grey-rumped species. 

 Total length 29 inches, wing 9-6, tail 17-5, tarsus 2-7. 



Adult female. Closely resembles the female of P. strauclii, but 

 the feathers of the mantle are almost entirely black in the middle, 

 ■ with sometimes a thin shaft-stripe of rufous, and the green tips to 

 the feathers are usually well-marked ; also the black bars on the 

 feathers of the chest, breast, and flanks are much more strongly 

 marked. Total length 24 inches, wing 8-2, tail lO'o, tarsus 2-2. 



Bah. Japanese Islands, except Yezo. 



a b SZ ad.sk. Japan. Gould Coll. 



c'<?' (5 2 ad. sk. Japan. E. Hartert, Esq.[E.]. 



e' 2 ad. sk. Japan. ' Challenger ' Exp. 



f q S9- ad. St. Japan. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



// S ad. St. Japan. Purchased. 



z " cJ ad sk. Hakodadi, Feb. Tweeddale Coll. 



h 9. ad. sk. Nagasaki. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



/. cf ad. sk. Northamptonshire, Feb. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



m. Skeleton. 



Hybrid between G. horsfieldi and P. versicolor. See p. 303. 



Hybrid between P. colchicus and P. versicolor. See p. 323. 



Hiibrid beitveen P. torquatus and P. versicolor. See p. 333. 



