THE GOLDEN PHEASANTS'. 4^ 



Male with a full long crest of hairy feathers, and a cape-like 

 development of erectile feathers. Tarsi armed with a pair of 

 short spurs. 



Only two species are known.* 



I. THE GOLDEN PHEASANT. CHRYSOLOPHUS PICTUS. 



Phasianus pidus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 272 (1766); Hayes, Osterl. 



Menag. p. 5, pis. 5 and 6 (1794). 

 ThaumaIeaptcta,\Y2i^iex,\s\s, 1832, p. 1228; Gould, B.Asia, vii. 



pi. 19 (1866); Elliot, IMonogr. Phasian. ii. pi. xv. (1872). 

 Chrysolophiis pieties J J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 41, fig. 2 



(1834); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 339 



(1893). 



^Plate XXIV.) 



Adult Male. — Top of the head, crest, and rump brilliant ^6)/^^//- 

 yellow; square-tipped cape-like feathers covering the back of the 

 neck brilliant ora?ige, tipped and banded with black glossed 

 with steel-blue ; throat and sides of the head pa/e rust-colour; 

 shoulder-feathers and rest of under-parts crimson-scarlet, and 

 middle pair of tail-feathers black, with rounded spots of pale 

 brown. Total length about 40 inches; wing, 7-7; tail, 27; 

 tarsus, 2"8. 



Adult Female. — Head and mantle brown, barred with black 

 and buff, and mixed with rufous ; lower back and rump pale 

 brown, finely mottled with black ; throat pale buff ; sides of 

 head and rest of under-parts buff, barred with brownish-black 

 except on the middle of the belly. Total length, 24 inches ; 

 wing, 7 ; tail, 14; tarsus, 2*4. 



Range. — The mountains of Southern and Western China, 

 extending into Koko-nor. 



Hybrids. — The Golden Pheasant crosses freely with the Lady 



* In C. pic/us the parts surrounding the eye are entirely feathered ; in 

 C. arnherstiii they are naked, but the two species are in all other respects 

 50 closely allied that they cannot be separated generically. 



