1S4 PHEASANTS FOE (WEFTS AND AVIAUIES. 



stating that it cannot Ije reared successfully in tlie same 

 uiauuer as ordinary English ])heasants^ whereas it is ajipar- 

 rutly certain that no true Mongolian ]ilica.sant Inis u]) to 

 recent times ever l)een introduced into the United (States. 

 Misled l)j' the otlieinl di")cuineuts as to the rearing of this 

 Vjird, I reproduced the directions fm' its cultivation in the 

 FJchI, wliich elicited from the Hon. AValtei' liothschild the 

 ti.illowing ci ininiuuicatiii)) : — 



"I wish to point out that the lurd ca.lled in America^ 

 l''j'ain'c, Holland, and many other countries JMongolian 

 pheasant is D(.it that l)ird, hut the I'ing-nccked jdieasant, or 

 Chinese pheasant (/'. forifiial iiv), and, so far as I have 

 lieen ahlc to ascertain, the Iriie /' Diniiijoliciis had never 

 lieen intro(_luci.>d alive betVire Mr. (Jarl Hagenheek y-ot 

 them for me, and certaiidy have imt iteeii introdui'ed into 

 America." 



It IS dillicult to imagine how this mistake could have 

 arisen ; the appearance of the t\V(j hreeds is totally dis- 

 tinct. |-!ut there is no doubt that the Hon. A\'alter Kotlis- 

 child is perfectly correct, for in an elaborate paper on 

 pheasants in ('miiitri/ Life in Aiiirn'rK f(.)r September, 1903, 

 engravings of tlie different sj.iecies are given, inclnding 

 a, large one of the Chinese King-neck, /'. h>r<iinitiis, and 

 iiiiderneath this elaborate drawing is put the f(_)llowing 

 description : — 



"The so-called ' Arongolian ' |-iheasaut, pri^iperly the China 

 I'iug-neck, or Tniy/nul iis^ the true Mongolian, has ne\er 

 reached this (-ountry alive. fhe-hteen Tnniuatus pheasants 

 were turned loiise in ()reg(in in ISSf, ;ind there are proliablv 

 more now in ( )regou than in ('hina. rift\- thousand were 

 killed ill one day last ye;ir in Oregon. This is the be^-t 

 s]iecies for mit uralisiiig iu Aiiim-ican game ]>reserves." 



'i'here is no doubt whatever of tlu- correctness of the 

 -ratement by the Jbjii. Walter J^lf hs(/hild, and the errcir 

 eoinniitti.'d by the American aatliorities is greatly to be 

 regretted, as it eaniiol fail to lead to ci.mfusion. 



