34 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Il. Crown of the head reddish. 
XVII. SCEMMERRING’S COPPER PHEASANT. PHASIANUS 
S@MMERRINGI. 
Phasianus semmerringit, Temm. Pl. Col. v. pls. 8 and g [Nos. 
487, 488] (1830); Cassin, in Perry's Exped. Japan, ii. p. 
p25, pl. 2 (1856); Sclater, in Woll’s Zool. Sketches, 2: 
pl. 32 (1861); Gould, B. Asia, vii. pl. 37 (1867); Elliot, 
Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. xii. (1872); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 336 (1393). 
Adult Male—General colour above chestnut or brownish- 
chestnut, the margins of the feathers of the upper-parts and 
chest glossed with purplish-carmine, changing to fiery gold ; 
the basal part of the feathers black, most conspicuous on the 
wing-coverts ; breast and rest of the under-parts and tail-feathers 
chestnut, the long middle pair with wide-set narrow black bars 
dividing the lighter from the darker chestnut, and the outer 
pairs widely tipped with black. ‘Total length, 50 inches ; wing, 
So; tail, 37-) tarsus; 2"; 
Adult Female—Crown of the head Jd/ackish, each feather 
margined with rufous; general colour of the upper-parts black, 
mottled with sandy-buff and rufous, the feathers on the mantle 
with the ground-colour mostly rufous, those of the back and 
scapulars mostly black, with buff shaft-stripes; chin, throat, 
and fore-part of the neck pale buff, most of the feathers, except 
those down the middle, being tipped with black. Chest pale 
ereyish-rufous, spotted with black; rest of the under-parts 
mostly buff; tail-feathers chestnut, the middle pairs indistinctly 
mottled with black and buff, the outer pairs tipped with black 
and white. Total-length, 21-0 inches; wing, 8°1; tail, 7°5; 
tarsus, 271, 
Range.—The Japanese islands of Hondo and Kiu-siu. 
Habits.—Very little has been written about the habits of 
Scemmerring’s Copper Pheasant, and the only published notes 
are not very important. Since the year 1865 several birds 
