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high-pitched and capable of carrying a long distance. In the early morning the birds 

 crowed continually at regular intervals. When hunting them I always tried to locate 

 the sound, but when I approached within a hundred yards of any particular bird, it 

 usually stopped crowing. The sound carries to such a distance that it is rather difficult 

 to locate the bird exactly, but if I managed to flush him, the cock would start up with a 

 loud, rapidly repeated cackle. This was only uttered, however, when first starting from 

 the ground, and after flying a hundred yards or so the bird generally was quiet. The 

 effect of this noise and the whirr of wings as the great bird came out of the grass 

 was decidedly disturbing. This cackle when flushed, and the crow given in the morning, 

 were the only two notes that I heard from these northern pheasants. The birds always 

 crow more continuously in the morning than in the evening. 



'* I never found them roosting in the trees in northern Corea, but frequently put 

 them up from the ground in thick woods, although their general haunt was on the 

 edge of cleared spaces just within the trees and long grass. I never heard the female 

 give a call or note. As in the case with the pheasants of the south, the birds feed early 

 in the morning and late afternoon, and seldom in the middle of the day. Since there 

 were none of the small bush fir-trees and a great deal more forest in the north than in 

 the south, the conditions under which the birds were living were quite different, 

 nevertheless, they were always found upon the ground, and, as I have said above, near 

 the cleared spaces. 



" I was not able to get any data as to the nesting habits of this bird, although 

 I promised the Coreans a yen if they found a nest. They all said it was very difficult 

 to do and that they seldom found one." 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus torquatus Taczanowski, Fauna Orn. Sib. Or. in M^m. Ac. St. Petersb,, s^r. 7, XXXIX. 1893, p. 788 

 (partim) ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 331 (partim) ; Bianchi, Mater. Orn. Mandchourie, in Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. VII. 191 2. 



Phasianus karpowi Buturlin, Orn. Manat., XII. 1904, p. 3 ; Buturlin, Ibis, 1904, p. 406. 



Phasianus colchicus karpowi Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn, Club, XIV. 1904, p. 37 ; Hartert, Novitates Zool., 

 XXIV. 1917, p. 452. 



Phasianus karpowi buturlini Clark, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXXII. 1907, p. 468 ; Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, 



pp. 579-584. 



Phasianus torquatus karpowi Ingram, Ibis, 1909, p. 461. 



Phasianus karpowi karpowi Cldivk, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXXVIII. 191 1, p. 155 (Korea). 



