

ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



'Number Jjl) 



Published by the New York Zoological Society 



July, 1011 



THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S PHEASANT EXPEDITION. 



By C. WiL 



Photograph; 



THIS expedition, organized for the (jurpose 

 of gathering original data for the prepara- 

 tion of a monograph of the pheasants, jun- 

 glefowl and peafowl, and made possible by the 

 generous gift of Colonel Anthony R. Kuser, 

 has now been completed. The most sanguine 

 expectations were exceeded in the amount of 

 territory covered and tiie results attained. 

 Voluminous notes h.ive been taken, reinforced 



LIA5I BeEBE. 



by the author. 



by a great number of pliotographs and sketches, 

 concerning the habits and ecology of the ))heas- 

 ants found in the countries visited, much of the 

 material being new to science. Although the 

 collecting of living birds was a secondary ob- 

 ject of the expedition, several large shipments 

 were sent back. Among these were included 

 the Indian Black-Backed Goose. {Sarcidiornis 

 mclanononia). ludi.ui House Crow. {Cnrviis 



HOME OF THE PEAFOVVl. AND CEYLON JUNGLEFOWL. 

 icacias and euphorbias bordering a salt lagoon, near the coast of 



