PLATE LXIV 



SCINTILLATING COPPER PHEASANT 



Syrmaticus soemmerringi scintillans (Gould) 

 (Left-hand figure) 



IJIMA'S COPPER PHEASANT 



Syrmaticus soemmerringi ijimae (Dresser) 

 (Right-hand figure) 



As the northern Copper Pheasants are seldom out of sight of the cloud-swept snows of Fuji, so 

 the southern satin-backed birds, by raising their heads, can always watch the billowing blue smoke from 

 the waistcoat-pocket crater of Kirishima-yama. 



Foxes, weasels and especially half-wild house cats are among the enemies which force these birds 

 to roost in trees. In spite of their brilliancy of colouring, Copper Pheasants are able to keep concealed, 

 and a pair or two may inhabit a tiny grove of trees or shrubs on the rocky summit of a hill, and remain 

 quite unknown to the Japanese farmers whose fields surround them on every side. 



