RING PHEASANT. 29 



tail-coverts lead-coloured j back deep black, spotted ante- 

 riorly with yellowish, variegated posteriorly with white and 

 red. 



Phasianus torquatus. I*ach. Zool. Misc. 2. 14. Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. I. 742. 



Phasianus torquatus, primus. Temm. Gall. Ind. QjQ. 



Phasianus colchicus /3. Lath. Jnd. Orn. 2. 629. 4. 



Le Faisan i collier blanc de la Chine. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 

 2. 326. 



Ring Pheasant. Leach. Zool. Misc. 2. 14. pi. 66. Lath. Syn. 

 4. 715. Lath. Syn. Sup. 208. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 



THE Ring Pheasant occurs in great abundance 

 in the northern forests of the vast empire of 

 China : it is much less than the common Pheasant, 

 rarely exceeding two feet six inches in length : 

 the male has the upper part of the head fawn- 

 coloured, shaded with bright green : over each 

 eye is a white dash : the upper part of the neck, 

 the throat, and the feathers, which form a ruff on 

 each side of the occiput, are of a fine deep green, 

 with violet reflections : a collar of a pure white 

 encircles about one third of the length of the neck ; 

 this is broadest on the sides : the feathers of the 

 top of the back are black in the middle, and 

 varied with a zigzag whitish band ; they are 

 edged with a deep border of ochrey yellow, and 

 are marked with a sagittal black line at their tip : 

 the scapulars are black at their base, with a whitish 

 yellow spot in their centres, encircled with a ring 

 of black ; the rest chesnut glossed with purple : 

 the lower part of the back and the rump are varied 

 with different hues of green, shaded towards their 

 sides with greyish : the upper tail-coverts are clear 



