32 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 
XVI. THE JAPANESE PHEASANT. PHASIANUS VERSICOLOR. 
Phastanus versicolor, Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 23, pl. 205 (1825) ; 
Temm. Pl. Col. vy. pls. 6 and 7 [Nos. 486, 493] (1reaae 
Cassin, Perry’s Exp. Jap. u.:p. 223,/pl. 1 (1856);2Goula 
B. Asia, vii. pl. 40 (1857); Sclater and Wolf, Zool. Sket. 
i. pl. 38 (1861) ; Elliot, Monogr. Phas. ii. pl. ix. (1872) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 334 (1893). 
Adult Male——Easily distinguished from all other species of 
the genus by having the whole of the under-parts wxzform dark 
green. The mantle is dark green shot with purple, each feather 
being ornamented with concentric lines of buff, and there is xo 
rust-red patch on each side of the rump, which is uniform 
greenish-slate. In this respect the present species differs from 
P. torquatus and all the allied forms with slate-coloured rumps. 
Total length; 29 inches ; wing, 9°6; tail, 17°5 ; tarsus, 2°7. 
Adult Female—Much like the female of P. straucht, but the 
feathers of the mantle have the centre almost entirely black, 
with sometimes a thin rufous shaft-stripe and the green tips 
are generally conspicuous ; the black bars on the breast and 
flanks are much more strongly marked. Total length, 24 
inches ; wing, $°2; tail, 10°5 ; tarsus, 272. 
Range.—The Japanese Islands, except Yezo. 
Habits Mr. Heine, who met with this beautiful bird on the 
hills in the neighbourhood of Simoda, supplies the following 
account :—“ The walk and ascent had fatigued me somewhat ; 
I had laid down my gun and game-bag, and was just stooping 
to drink from a little spring that trickled from a rock, when, 
not ten yards from me, a large Pheasant arose, with loud rust- 
ling noise, and before I had recovered my gun, he had dis- 
appeared over the brow of a hill. I felt somewhat ashamed 
for allowing myself thus to be taken so completely aback; but | 
noticing the direction in which he had gone, I proceeded more 
carefully in pursuit. A small stretch of table-land, which T | 
