590 APPENDIX. 



(27.) Pago 206, after species of Phasianus : 



GENns CHRYSOLOPHUS J. E. Gray. 



«'. Eufif or cape of male golden orange, barred with black ; entire under parts, 

 except chin and throat, bright red ; tail light tawny or cinnamon, barred 

 and reticulated with black. Length about 40 inches, wing about 7.70, 

 tail 27. Adult female mottled brown above the wings heavily barred with 

 dusky; top and hinder part of head, neck, chest, sides, and flanks regu- 

 larly barred with dusky; rest of under parts plain light buflf, also the 

 interspaces between dusky bars on chest and lower portion of sides and 

 flanks. Length about 24, wing 7.00, tail 14. Hah. Mountains of southern 

 and western China. Introduced into western Oregon. 



C. pictus.' Golden Pheasant. 



a?. Ruflf or capo of adult male pure white, barred with black ; chest metallic 

 green, barred with black ; breast, sides, etc., pure white; tail white, barred 

 and lined with black. Length about 50 inches, wing 8.20, tail 36.00. 

 Hdb. Mountains of western China and eastern Thibet. 



C. amherstiae (Leadb.). Lady Amherst's Pheasant.' 



Gexus GENNiEUS Waoler. 



Adult male with crest and under parts glossy blue-black; upper parts 

 (except crest) pure white, marked (except on greater part of longer rectrices) 

 with V-shaped pencillings of black ; face, legs, and feet bright red. Length 

 about 40 inches, wing 10.50, tail 24. Adult female plain brown above; beneath 

 similar, with paler shaft-streaks, the posterior parts and thighs irregularly mot- 

 tled with zigzag lines of dusky ; tail (except middle feathers) irregularly barred 

 with black and white; face, legs, and feet dull red. Length about 20.50, Aving 

 9.10, tail 9.80. Hab. Southern China. Introduced into western Oregon. 



G. nycthemerus Linn. Silver Pheasant.' 



(28.) Page 207, under Meleagris gallopavo : 



3106. Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scott. Florida Wild Turkey.* 

 Similar to M. gallopavo, but darker, especially the remigcs ; inner seconda- 

 ries plain dull grayish brown, and primaries brownish black narrowly barred 

 with white, the white bars not touching the shafts of the quills. JIab. Southern 

 and middle Florida. 



1 Phaiianut pielut LiMN., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i. 1758, 158. — Chrytolophita picttit J. E. Gray, Illustr. Ind. 

 Zool. ii. 1834, pi. 41, flg. 2. 



' Plintianiit amhcrtlitr LEAnB., Trans. Linn. Soe. xvi. 1828, 129, pi. 15. Chrytolophm amhcrtlia Q. R. 

 Gray, List Gallinie lirit. Mus. 1867, 30. 



' Phaiianut ni/cthemerui LiN.v., S^st. Nat. cd. 10, i. 1758, 159. <?ciiiia;u« nyclhemerut Waoleh, Isis, 1832, 

 1228. 



* McUa'jrii yallopavo osceola ScoTT, Auk, vii. Oct. ISOO, .370. 



