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with a more curved tail, and being more sober 

 coloured than pheasants generally are. Its home is 

 Siamand Cochin China. By ornithologists this species 

 is placed amongst the "Fire Back" Pheasants on 

 account of the metallic buff of the back of the male 

 as seen when the wings are parted. The female is a 

 brown bird. 



SWINHOE'S PHEASANT. 



Swinhoe's Pheasant (^Enplocavins swinhoii') which 

 by some authorities is placed in a different genus 

 (GenncBus), an allied bii"d, is brighter in colour, show- 

 ing (in the nmle) much of the metallic colour of the 

 pheasants, having deep metallic blue, white and dark 

 crimson bronze in its plumage. Here again the female 

 is a very different coloured bird, being several shades 

 of rather rich brown, black and buff. 



Swinhoe's Kalij Pheasant, as it is sometimes 

 called, is found in the forest-clad mountains of For- 



