716 PHILIP—PHEBE 
that colour that in certain lights pervades almost the whole of its 
plumage, and, deepening into dark emerald, occupies all the breast 
and lower surface that in the common and Chinese birds is bay 
barred with glossy black scallops. Both of these species have been 
to a considerable extent introduced into England, and cross freely 
with P. colchicus, while the hybrids of each with the older inhabit- 
ants of the woods are not only perfectly fertile inter se, but cross 
as freely with the other hybrids, so that birds are frequently found 
in which the blood of the three species is mingled. The hybrids of 
the first cross are generally larger than either of their parents, but 
the superiority-of size does not seem to be maintained by their 
descendants. White and pied varieties of the common Pheasant, 
as of most birds, often occur, and with a little care a race or breed 
of each can be perpetuated. A much rarer variety is sometimes 
seen; this is known as the Bohemian Pheasant, not that there is 
the least reason to suppose it has any right to such an epithet, for 
it appears, as it were, accidentally among a stock of the pure P. 
colchicus, and offers an example analogous to that of the “ japanned ” 
PEACOCK already noticed, being, like that breed, capable of per- 
petuation by selection. ‘To a small extent two other species of 
Pheasant have been introduced to the coverts of England — P. 
reeves’ from China, remarkable for its very long tail, white with 
black bars,! and the Copper Pheasant, P. semmerringi, from Japan. 
The well-known Gold and Silver Pheasants, Thaumalea picta and 
Euplocamus nycthemerus, are both from China and have long been 
introduced into Europe, but are only fitted for the aviary. To the 
former is allied the still more beautiful 7. amherstiz and to the 
latter about a dozen more species, most of them known to Indian 
sportsmen by the general name of KALLEGE. These with the 
comparatively plain PuKRAS, Pucrasia, the magnificent MoNALS, 
Lophophorus, are elsewhere treated, but the fine Snow-Pheasants, 
Crossoptilum, of which there are several species, must, for want of 
space, be only mentioned here. All the species known at the time 
were beautifully figured from drawings by Mr. Wolf in Mr. Elliot’s 
grand Monograph of the Phasianidx (2 vols. fol. 1870-72)—the last 
term being used in a somewhat general sense. With a more precise 
scope Mr. Tegetmeier’s Pheasants: their Natwral History and Practical 
Management (4to, ed. 2, 1881) is to be commended as a very useful 
work. 
PHILIP and PHILP, old nicknames for the SPARROW (see 
page 132, note 1). 
PHC:BE, in parts of North America a name for what is there 
called also the PEwitT, Sayornis fusca, one of the TYRANT-BIRDS. 
1 The introduction of this species by the first Lord Tweedmouth near 
Guisachan in Inverness-shire is said to have been remarkably successful. 
