4'J ALLEN S NATURALISTS LIBRARY. 



Amherst's Pheasant, and the male hybrid is art extremely 

 handsome bird [see ElHot, Monogr, Phasian; ii. pi. xvii. (1872)]. 



Hybrids have also been produced between this species and 

 the domestic Fowl (Bantam) ; the Common Pheasant (P. col- 

 chicus) \ and Reeves's Pheasant (/*. reevesi) ; the last being a 

 large, handsome bird, with almost the entire plumage dull pur- 

 plish Indian-red. 



Eggs. (Laid in confinement.) — Pale creamy-buff; shell 

 rather fine, smooth, and glossy. Average measurements, 175 

 by 1-35 inch. 

 SUB-SP. a. schlegel's golden pheasant, chrysolophus 



OBSCURUS. 



Phasianus pidus obscurus, Schl. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. p. 152 



(1865). 

 Thaunialea obscnra^ Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. xvi. (1872). 

 Chrysolophus ohscurus^ Ogilvie-Grant, Cat B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 



341 (1893)- 



It is extremely doubtful whether this bird has any right 

 to even sub-specific rank. Probably it is merely a domestic 

 variety of the Golden Pheasant, having never been obtained, so 

 far as I am aware, in a wild state. 



Adult Male.— Differs from C. pidus in having the sides of the 

 head, chin, and throat browjiish-bladz, the shoulder-feathers 

 similarly coloured^ but slightly tinged with red, the outer webs 

 of the flight-feathers devoid of buff margins, and the middle pair 

 of tail-feathers pale brozvn, obliquely barred a?id marked with 

 black like the second pair. 



Adult Female. — Said to differ from the female of C. pidus 

 in being generally darker in plumage, especially on the sides 

 of the head and throat. I have never examined a female ex- 

 ample of this bird. 



IL lady AMHERST'S PHEASANT. CHRYSOLOPHUS AMHERSrLE. 



Phasianus amherstice, Leadb. Tr. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 129, pi. 15 

 (1828). 



