PLATE LIX 



EASTERN CHINESE RING-NECKED PHEASANT 



Phasianus colchicus torquatus Gmelln 



This is the Ring-necked Pheasant which has been introduced so widely into America and, especially 

 in the west, has increased so that it has to be kept down to prevent damage to crops. 



Its habits in general throughout the east of China, from Pekin to Canton, differ not at all from 

 those of the birds in our own country. They feed morning and evening, rest during the middle of the 

 day, roost on the ground, lay six to twelve eggs on debris in grassy or shrubby places. The young 

 birds acquire the adult plumage the first autumn. As many as eighteen hundred have been shot in 

 twenty-three days on the Yangtse. 



