22 PHEASANTS FOR COVERTS AND AVIARIES. 



received the following from Mr. Kelly in consequence of a 

 discussion in The Field about the weight of a pheasant : 

 ( Some few years since, while Admiral Sir Houston Stewart 

 was residing at Gunton, he sent me a pheasant that weighed 

 61b. wanting loz. He was an old bird, and the most splendid 

 in form and plumage that I ever beheld. A few days after- 

 wards being at Gunton, I told Sir Houston that I had 

 weighed the bird, but I thought my weights must be 

 incorrect, and asked him whether he knew its weight. He 

 said, " You are quite right. I weighed it before I sent it to 

 you, and that is my weight." ' In these cases of exceptionally 

 large birds, it is usually found that the extreme weight is 

 owing to the fattening influence of the maize on which they 

 have been fed. 



The species of pheasants enumerated by Mr. Ogilvie Grant in his 

 work on Game Birds are as follows : 



1. The Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). 



2. The Persian Pheasant (P. persicus). 



3. Prince of Wales' Pheasant (P. principalis). 



4. Zerafshan Pheasant (P. zerafshanicus) . 



5. Shaw's Pheasant (P. shawi). 



6. Tarim Pheasant (P. tarimensis). 



7. Oxus Pheasant (P. chrysomelas). 



8. Mongolian Pheasant (P. mongolicus). 



9. Chinese Pheasant (P. torquatus). 



10. The Satschuen Pheasant (P. satschuenensis). 



11. Formosan Pheasant (P. formosanus) . 



12. Chinese Ringless Pheasant (P. decollatus). 



13. Strauch's Pheasant (P. strauchi). 



14. Ylangali's Pheasant (P. vlangalii). 



15. Stone's Pheasant (P. elegansi). 



16. Japanese Pheasant (P. versicolor). 



17. So3mmerring's Pheasant (P. Bcemmerringi). 



18. Reeves's Pheasant (P. reevesii) ; 



in addition to which Mr. H. E. Dresser has described the following new 

 Japanese species in The Ibis for 1902, p. 656 : 



19. Ijima's Pheasant (P. ijimss) ; 



