I40 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



metallic green ; the pinkish gives place to sandy buff on the back and wing-coverts, 

 which are characterized by wide margins of this colour ; the black is also supplanted by 

 chestnut, the pattern of these areas in the undisturbed plumage being thus chestnut, 

 with a wide pale buff border and a broad wedge of black extending half-way up the 

 shaft ; on the rump and upper tail-coverts the black wedge reaches the tip, isolating two 

 lateral patches which have changed from chestnut to a brownish buff. 



On the flight-feathers, the buffy margin has so increased that it may be considered 

 the ground-colour, the remaining pattern being a broad, bold barring of black, with 

 more or less tinging of chestnut in the interspaces ; tail, dark red or often pinkish, 

 brown mottled with dark and with black bars similar to those of the male, which, 

 however, are narrowly bordered posteriorly with pale buff; the outer pairs show a 

 succession of cross-bars of black, pale buff, black and reddish brown, one after the other. 



The facial area is rather thinly feathered, and especially below the eye with pure 

 white; chin and throat, clear sandy buff; under neck, pinkish grey and the remainder 

 of the plumage sandy buff, all the feathers strongly barred with black ; on the under 

 tail-coverts this buff becomes chestnut and the feathers are tipped with white. 



Mandibles dusky horn colour ; legs and feet dusky ; irides hazel. Length, 

 650 mm. ; culmen, 29 ; wing, 204 ; tail, 255 ; tarsus, 65 mm. 



SYNONYMY 



Phasianus versicolor Vieill., Gal. Ois., II. 1825, p. 23, pi. 205; Gray, in Griff, ed. Cuvier, III. 1829, p. 23, 

 pi. ; Temm., PI. Col., V. 1830, pis. 6, 7 (Nos. 486, 493) ; Less., Traite d'Orn., 1831, p. 496; Schinz, Nat. Abbild. 

 Vog., 1833, p. 251, pi. 96; Jard., Nat. Lib. Orn., IV. 1834, p. 200, pis. XIV and XV; Gray, Gen. Birds, III. 1845, 

 p. 497; Schinz, Nat. Vog., 1853, p. 150, pi. 72; Cassin, Perry's Exped. Japan, II. 1856, p. 223, pi. I (Simoda) ; 

 Gould, Birds Asia, VII. 1857, pi. 40; Sclat. and Wolf, Zool. Sketches, I. 1861, pi. 38; Sclater, List Phas., 1863, 

 p. 4; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 116; Gray, List Gall. Brit. Mus., 1867, p. 28; Gray, Hand-list 

 Birds, II. 1870, p. 258; Elliot, Mon. Phas., 1872, II. pi. IX (text); Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, p. 452 (Hakodadi) ; 

 Blakist and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 226 (Hondo); Seebohm, Ibis, 1888, p. 313; Seebohm, Birds Japan, 1890, p. 370 

 (Japanese Islands except Yezo) ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 334; Grant, Hand-book Game- 

 birds, II. 1897, p. 32; Nehrkorn, Katolog der Eiersammlung, 1899, p, 194; Sharpe, Hand-list Birds I. 1899, 

 p. 38 ; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., I. 1901, p. 58; Dresser, Manual Palae. Birds, II. 1903, p. 664; Buturlin, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 412; Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1904, II. p. 130; Tegetmeier, Pheasants, 1904, p. 165; 

 Parlett, The Field, CVII. 1906, p. 629 (White variety) ; Ingram, Ibis, 1908, p. 168; Buturlin, Ibis, 1908, p. 593; 

 Mitchell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 191 1, p. 521 (Viability); Finn, Game-birds India and Asia, 191 1, p. 59. 



Phasianus diardi, Temm., PI. Col. V. 1830 (text to Ph. versicolor). 



Phasianus colchicus versicolor, Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIV. 1904, p. 37 ; Millais, Nat. Hist. Brit. 

 Game-birds, 1909, p. 106. 



