LIST OF COLOURED PLATES, PHOTOGRAVURES 



AND MAPS 



COLOURED PLATES 



Plate LXIX. GOLDEN PHEASANT Chrysolophus picttis (Linnaeus) Frontispiece 



Painted by C. R. Knight, 



Few white men have ever seen a Golden Pheasant in its wild home, for it haunts the deepest 

 mountains of Central China. No one has yet found its nest and eggs, yet in captivity it thrives 

 and breeds freely, and is one of the most beautiful birds, which any amateur can keep and rear 

 easily. 



Plate LXX. PLUMAGES OF THE GOLDEN PHEASANT Chrysolophus pidus 



(Linnaeus) ......... Facing page \6 



Painted by H, Gronvold. 



Fig. I. Chick in down with sprouting mantle and wing-feathers of the next plumage. 



Fig. 2. Male juvenile plumage, closely resembling that of the adult female. 



Fig. 3. Male in first-year plumage, showing hint of the ruff and the scarlet pigment. The tail is 



the last to be moulted, so it is closest in pattern and pigmentation to that of the 



adult bird. 



Plate LXXL PLUMAGES OF THE BLACK-THROATED GOLDEN PHEASANT 



Chrysolophus pictus, var. obscurus ..... Facing page 22 



Painted by H. Gronvold, 



Fig. I. The mutational changes are more marked in the chick than in any later plumage, there 

 being no resemblance to the normal colours. 



Fig. 2. The juvenile male plumage is much darker than that of the normal Golden Pheasant. 



Figs. 3 and 4. The adult male and female, although considerably darker, yet show the same 

 general markings as the normal birds. The most radical divergences are in the 

 face, throat and upper breast, which are smoky black in this variety. 



Plate LXXH. LADY AMHERST PHEASANT Chrysolophus amherstiae (Leadbeater) 



Painted by C. R. Knight. Facing page 26 



To steep, wild valleys and ravines of icy mountain torrents come the Amherst Pheasants 

 to feed. The cocks, in all their glory of ruff and body plumage, are beautiful beyond description, 

 the scarlet side-feathers glowing like shafts of rubies, and the eyes, matching the black and white 

 of the cape, gleaming with the very essence of the wilderness. 



Plate LXXHL VARIATIONS IN GOLDEN AND AMHERST PHEASANT 



HYBRIDS Facing page 32 



Painted by H. Gronvold. 



Two general types result from crossing Golden and Amherst Pheasants, one with a pale, 

 bluish-white, red-tipped ruff, the other with the cape more of the Golden pattern. 



Plate LXXIV. MALAY BRONZE-TAILED PEACOCK PHEASANT Chalcurus 



inopinaUiS Rothschild ....... Facing page 42 



Painted by L. A. Fuertes. 



These pheasants creep through the dense jungles among the damp undergrowth, or fly up to 

 the highest, isolated dead trees, from which they watch the sun setting across the wilderness of 

 Malay mountains. 



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