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THE PHEASANT. 
PuasiAnus COLCHICUS (Linnzus). 
There is evidence that the Pheasant had become naturalized in 
the south of England before the Norman invasion, though there is 
no mention of its existence in Scotland until 1594, or in Ireland 
till 1589. At the present day, however, it is generally distributed 
throughout the United Kingdom, and it has even been acclimatized 
in some of the Outer Hebrides. Little, if any, deviation from the 
typical P. colchicus took place up to the end of last century, when 
the introduction of the Chinese Ring-necked P. torguatus com- 
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