22 PSEASANTS FOB COVERTS AND AVIARIES. 



large birds, it is usually found that the extreme weight is 

 owing to the fattening influence of the maize on which they 

 have been fed. 



The species of pheasants enumerated by Mr. Ogilvie Grant in his 

 work on Game Birds are as follows: — 



1. The Common Pheasant (Phasianus oolcMcus). 



2. The Persian Pheasant {P.persicus). 



3. Prince of Wales' Pheasant (P. principalis). 



4. Zerafshan Pheasant (P. zerqfshanims). 



5. Shaw's Pheasant (P. shawi). 



6. Tarim Pheasant (P. tarimensis). 



7. Oxus Pheasant (P. chrysomelas). 



8. Mongolian Pheasant (P. mongolicus). 



9. Chinese Pheasant (P. torquatus). 



10. The Satschen Pheasant (P. satscheunensis). 



11. Formosan Pheasant (P. formosanus). 



12. Chinese Ringless Pheasant (P. decollaius). 



13. Stranch's Pheasant (P. strauchi). 



14. Vlangali's Pheasant (P. vlangalii). 



15. Stone's Pheasant (P. elegans). 



16. Japanese Pheasant (P. versicolor). 



17. Scemmerring's Pheasant (P. scemmerringi). 



18. Reeves's Pheasant (P. reevesii) ; 



in addition to which Mr. H. E. Dresser has described the following new 

 Japanese species in The This for 1902, p. 656 : 



19. Ijima's Pheasant (P. ijimce) ; 



and the Hon. "Walter Rothschild the following species in the Bulletin 

 of the British Ornithologists' Club, vol. xii., p. 20: 



20. Berezowsky's Pheasant (P. berezowskyi). 



21. Hagenbeck's Pheasant (P. hagenbechi) ; 



and to these should be added the closely allied birds which have been 

 put in the genus Calophasis. These differ only from the other pheasants 

 in having sixteen tail feathers, and the lower back of the males trans- 

 versely barred. Two species only are known : 



22. Elliot's Pheasant (Calophasis ellioti). 



23. Hume's Pheasant (C. humice). 



