PHOTOGRAVURE 48 



YUNNAN BLACK-NECKED OR STONE'S PHEASANT 



Phasianus colchicus elegans Elliot 



This is the only member of the entire genus which occurs within the boundaries of British India. 

 In Yunnan the bird is found in the same general environment as the silver kaleege pheasants. A 

 hunter I knew drove a cock bird out of cover into a ploughed field, and a golden eagle made a swoop 

 at it but missed. 



Stone's pheasant roams over the wooded heights of the maze of mountains along the Burma-Chinese 

 frontier, and finds its food by scratching among the dead leaves and ferns of the forest undergrowth. 



