THE GOLDEN PHEASANTS. 45 
Male with a full long crest of hairy feathers, and a cape-like 
development of erectile feathers. Tarsi armed with a pair of 
short spurs. 
Only two species are known.* 
I. THE GOLDEN PHEASANT. CHRYSOLOPHUS PICTUS. 
Phastanus pictus, Linn. S. N. 1. p. 272 (1766); Hayes, Osterl. 
Menag. p. 5, pls. 5 and 6 (1794). 
Thaumalea picta, Wager, Isis, 1832, p.1228; Gould, B. Asia, vii. 
pl. 19 (1866); Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. xv. (1872). 
Chrysolophus pictus, J. i. Gray, Ill. Ind. Zool. ii. pl. 41, fig. 2 
(1834); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 339 
(1893). 
(Plate XXIV.) 
Adult Male.— Top of the head, crest, and rump brilliant golden- 
yellow , square-tipped cape-like feathers covering the back of the 
neck dridliant orange, tipped and banded with black glossed 
with steel-blue ; throat and sides of the head pave rust-colour, 
shoulder-feathers and rest of under-parts crimson-scarlet, and 
middle pair of tail-feathers black, zw7th rounded spots of pale 
brown. Total length about 40 inches; wing, 7:7; tail, 27; 
tarsus, 2°8. 
Adult Female—Head and mantle brown, barred with black 
and buff, and mixed with rufous ; lower back and rump pale 
brown, finely mottled with black; throat pale buff; sides of 
head and rest of under-parts buff, barred with brownish-black 
except on the middle of the belly. Total length, 24 inches ; 
wing, 7; tail, 14; tarsus, 2°4. 
Range.-—The mountains of Southern and Western China, 
extending into Koko-nor. 
Hybrids.— The Golden Pheasant crosses freely with the Lady 
* In C. pictus the parts surrounding the eye are entirely feathered ; in 
C. amherstie they are naked, but the two species are in all other respects 
|so closely allied that they cannot be separated generically, 
