PAA) GALLIFORMES CHAP. 
crown and full recumbent hair-like crest golden, the fine erectile 
cape of truncated nape-plumes orange with blue-black bars, the 
mantle dark green and purple, the rump golden, the primaries 
brownish, the secondaries purplish with chestnut and_ black 
coverts, the larger tail-coverts and the vaulted tail with its two 
very long median rectrices black, with brown spots or stripes, 
the scapulars and under parts scarlet, and the cheeks and throat 
rufous. There are generally two spurs on each metatarsus, and 
the bare orbits are yellowish. The female is brown, relieved by 
black and buff, and has a shorter tail, no crest or cape. This 
bird, difficult to naturalize in Britain, but easily domesticated, 
inhabits wooded mountains in South and West China and East 
Tibet, meeting in the last two countries the equally beautiful 
Lady Amherst’s Pheasant (C. amherstiae), which has dark green 
crown, mantle, throat, and chest, blood-red crest, white cape 
with blue-black bars, black and buff rump, glossy green and 
brown wings, white breast and abdomen, and black and white 
tail with scarlet and orange tips to the coverts. The orbits are 
blue in both sexes, the female being otherwise as in C. pictus. 
The original Pheasant of Britain—probably introduced by the 
tomans—was Phasianus colchieus, ranging from the Caspian to 
South-East Europe; but the Ring-necked species (P. torquatus) of 
Manchuria, East Mongolia, Corea, Tsu-sima, and Eastern China, 
imported towards the end of last century, has interbred with it so 
freely that typical examples are now exceptional. The latter form 
has a white collar and slaty lower back with dark green barring ; 
while the former has the rump feathers buff, with black mottlings 
and purplish-red tips. The females, hardly separable from one 
another, lack the red face-wattles, the long ear-tufts, and the 
pair of spurs of the male. The above-mentioned colour of the 
lower back and the comparatively broad black basal tail-bands, 
are the distinguishing points of a section, which comprises 
P. torquatus, P. elegans of West China, P. vlangali of Tsaidam, 
P. strauchi of Kansu, P. decollatus of Western and Central China, 
P. satscheunensis of Sa-tscheu, P. formosanus of Formosa, and 
P. versicolor of Japan. Another section, more akin to P. colchicus, 
contains P. tarvmensis and P. zerafshanicus of the Tarim and 
Zerafshan Valleys, P. persicus of Persia and Transcaspia, P. prin- 
cipalis of North-East Persia and North-West Afghanistan, /. 
shawi of East Turkestan, P. chrysomelas of the Amu-Darya, and 
