By Ferd. J. Sudow, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 



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PEACOCK PHEASANTS 

 (Polyplectron chinquis) 



These birds look very much like our native peafowl, extremely handsome, having 

 the peacock eye all over the back. In their native state, they breed four times a year. 

 They weigh from two to three pounds when full grown. The sexes are very similar, hens 

 lay about twelve eggs in season. 



Bohemian pheasants are pure white, size of ringneck pheasant, and excellent breeders : 

 averaging sixty eggs in season. 



TRAGOPAN-PHEASANTS 



Tragopan resemble the Guinea fowl, but with much more brilliant and striking plumage, 

 which is a wonderful combination of bright hues, with delicate markings and shading, very 

 difficult to describe fully. The upper plumage is intricately speckled with black and brown, 

 intermixed with red and varied with pale spots of different colors, the two sexes looking much 

 alike. They are easily tamed and breed freely in captivity ; hen will average forty eggs in a 

 season April- August. 



