22 PHEASANTS FOB COVERTS AND AVIARIES. 



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. Priuee 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. Mong'olian Pheasant (P. mongolicus). 



9. Chinese Pheasant (P. torquatus). 



10. The Satsehen Pheasant (P. satscheunensis). 



11. Formosan Pheasant {P. formosanus) . 



12. Chinese Riugless Pheasant (P. decollatus). 



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



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



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



16. Japanese Pheasant (P. versicolor). 



17. Soemmerring's Pheasant (P. scemmerringi). 



18. Reeves's Plieasant (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. ijimce) ; 



and the Hon. Walter E/othschild the following species in the Bulletin 

 of the British Ornithologists' Club, vol. xii., p. 20: 



20. Berezowsky's Pheasant (P. berezowsJcyi). 



21. Hagcnbeck's Pheasant (P. liagenbecM) ; 



and to these should be added the closely allied birds which have been 

 put in the genus Calopliasis. These differ only from the other pheasants 

 in having sixteen tail feathei's, and the lower back of the males trans- 

 versely barred. Two species only are known : 



22. Elliot's Pheasant {Galophasis ellioii). 



23. Hume's Pheasant (C hutnice). 



