TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER 1. 



Page. 

 Introduction — Game-birds and their characteristics ; 



the family Phasianidte — its divisions . . . . i 



CHAPTER II. 



Pea-fowl and Jungle-fowl — Their characteristics- 

 Common Pea-fcrwl — Burmese or Green fea-fowl — Red 

 Jungle-fowl — Ceylon Jungle-fowl — Grey or Madras 

 Jungle-fowl — Green Jtmgle-fowl . . . . ij 



CHAPTER III. 



Short-tailed Pheasants — Tragopans, Monauls, etc. — 

 Crimson Tragopan — Black or Western Tragopan — Grey- 

 breasted or Assam Tragopan — Grey-spotied or Tem- 

 minck's Tragopan — BufJ or Cabot's Tragopan — Common 

 Monaul or Impeyan Pheasant — Bronze-backed Mon- 

 aul — Crestless Monaul — Vhuys's Monaul — Blood- 

 Pheasant — Geoffroy's Blood-Pheasant — Chinese Blood- 

 Pheasant . . . . . . . . 24 



CHAPTER IV. 



Long-tailed Phea.sants — Argus — Bornean Argus — 

 Double-spoiled Argus — Crested Argus — Grey Pea- 

 cock-Pheasant—Malayan Peacock-Pheasant — Germain's 

 Peacock-Pheasant — Bornean Peacock-Pheasant — Napo- 

 leon's Peacock-Pheasant — Purple-tailed Pheasant — Inter- 

 mediate Peacock-Pheasant — Lady Amherst's Pheasant — 

 Golden Pheasant — Cheer Pheasant — Mrs. Hume's Pheas- 

 ant — Elliot's Pheasant — Copper Pheasant — Mikado 

 Pheasant — Reeves's Pheasant — Stone's Pheasant — Com- 

 mon Pheasant and the, allied x.aces . . . . 40 



