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In the foregoing list the recent additions made to the 
Society’s series of Pheasants are perhaps those which have 
excited the most general interest, and best offer occasion for 
afew remarks. In the month of April, last year, the Secre- 
tary of the Society read at one of the scientific meetings a 
paper (since published in the ‘ Proceedings’) on the family 
Phasianide, in which fifty-six species of this splendid group 
of birds were enumerated as known to science. Of these, no 
less than twenty-nine have been already, at different times, 
obtained living for the Society’s collections, and exhibited 
in their Aviaries. The Society’s present series of this 
family embrace the following species :— 
. The Impeyan Pheasant (Lophophorus impeyanus). 
. The Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). 
. The Japanese Pheasant (Phasianus versicolor). 
. Scemmering’s Pheasant (Phasianus semmeringii). 
. The Wallich’s Pheasant or Cheer (Phasianus wal- 
lichit). 
. The Golden Pheasant (Thaumalea picta). 
The Rufous-tailed Pheasant (Huplocamus erythroph- 
- thalmus). 
. The Silver Pheasant (Huplocamus nycthemerus). 
. Horsfield’s Kaleege (Huplocamus horsjieldi). 
. The Black-backed Kaleege (Euplocamus melanotus). 
. The White-crested Kaleege (Huplocamus albocris- 
tatus). . 
12. Sonnerat’s Jungle-fowl (Gallus sonneratii). 
13. The Tragopan (Ceriornis satyra). 
14. The Common Pea-fowl (Pavo cristatus). 
15. The Black-winged Pea-fowl (Pavo nigripennis). 
16. The Indian Polyplectron (Polyplectron chinquis). 
17. The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). 
18. The Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata). 
Of these, Seemmering’s Pheasant, the Rufous-tailed 
Pheasant, and the Black-headed Tragopan are all recent 
introductions, and, as there are pairs of each of them in 
the collection, may probably become permanent additions 
to the list of breeding Phasianide. 
HSOM NO ohWDE 
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In order to bring more effectually to the knowledge of 
their numerous correspondents and friends in the Kast and 
elsewhere the present state of the Society’s collection of 
these birds and the species that were still desiderata to 
