206 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Europe in general, except colder portions; introduced into (and 
naturalized in?) eastern United States. (Introduced into Europe 
from western Asia.) 
P. colchicus Linn. Pheasant.) 
ce. Adult male with white collar round neck, much narrower (sometimes 
interrupted) before and behind; otherwise closely resembling P. 
colchicus. Hab. China. (Introduced into and partially naturalized 
in western Oregon ?) 
P. torquatus GMEL. Ring-necked Pheasant.? 
b?. Adult male with breast, sides, and flanks rich dark green. 
Length about 24.00-27.00, wing 9.60, tail 16.00. Adult female very similar 
to same sex of P. colchicus and P. torquatus, but tail more numerously 
barred and with more reddish or purplish ground-color; length about 
20.00, wing 8.25, tail 10.50. Hab. Japan; introduced into and naturalized 
in western Oregon. 
P. versicolor VIEILL. Green Pheasant.3 
a’. Adult male with neck rich chestnut, with coppery red and purplish reflections; 
sides of occiput without tufts. Adult female with tail (except four middle 
feathers) uniform chestnut, tipped with white, this immediately preceded by 
a subterminal black bar. 
Adult male: General color chestnut and rufous, glossed with coppery red 
and purplish, the rump broadly streaked with white; tail light rufous, 
crossed at wide intervals by broad bands of deep chestnut, each of these 
preceded by a black bar, this again by mottled whitish ; length about 
36.00, wing 9.00, tail 28.00. Female: Length about 18.00-20.00, wing 
8.25, tail 8.50. Hab. Japan ; introduced into and naturalized in western 
Oregon. 
(27.) P. semmerringii TEmM. Copper Pheasant. 
Genus MELEAGRIS Linnaus. (Page 205, pl. UXI., fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Common CHARACTERS.—Quills slaty, barred with white; secondaries similar, 
but with more white; tail brown or gray, barred with black; plumage in general 
more or less brilliantly metallic. Mest on ground in woods. Eggs 10-18, or more, 
light buffy, thickly (but sometimes indistinctly) speckled or sprinkled with brown. 
a. Tail and its coverts tipped with chestnut, rusty, or whitish; ground-color of 
tail brown; feathers of lower back, rump, and lower parts metallic, tipped 
narrowly with velvety black; greater wing-coverts dull copper-color, tipped 
with velvety black. Adult males with a conspicuous beard-like tuft of stiff 
1 Phasianus colchicus Linn., 8. N. ed. 10, 1758, 158. 
2 Phasianus torquatus GuEL., S. N. i. 1788, 742. 
8 Phasianua versicolor VIEILL., Gal. Ois. ii. 1834, 23, pl. 205. 
£ Phasianus semmerringii TemM., Pl. Col. v. 1838, 82 livr. pls. 487, 488, 
