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enormous length— and its primaries, are extremely beauti- 

 ful ; but unfortunately those beauties are not visible until 

 the bird is dead, and its plumage displayed in a manner 

 very rarely adopted by the living, captive bird. But the 

 eyes on the huge secondary feathers are wonderful, and each 

 primary is a dream in ecru and brown tints, laid on in a 

 most elaborate pattern. The Argus Pheasants are most shy 

 and wide-awake birds, inhabiting the dense, hot and moist 

 jungles of Borneo, Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, and 

 are almost impossible to shoot. They are snared by the 

 Dyaks and Malays, and after the skin has been removed and 

 carefully preserved for museum purposes, the flesh is as fine 

 mating as the breast of a quail. A few successful attempts 

 have been made to breed this species in captivity. 



The Impeyan Pheasant, {Lophophonis impeyanus), is the 

 neighbor of the Himalayan tahr, the burrhel, the ibex and 

 the markhor, and the delight of every sportsman who dares 

 the rocks of "the Roof of the World" in quest of Himalayan 

 big game. Its beauty is due chiefly to its metallic colors, 

 and the splendid iriclescence of its plumage. Its home is 

 in the world's most gigantic mountains, and it is not un- 

 common for a bird that has flown out from a mountain-side 

 and been shot on the wing to fall 2,000 feet, and beyond 

 human reach. No wonder this bird is the "darling" of all 

 Anglo-Indian sportsmen. 



In view of the impossibility of specially mentioning each 

 species of the birds quartered in the Pheasant Aviary, we 

 offer a list of the most important now on exhibition there, 

 and which as far as it is possible will be maintained : 



LIST OF PHEASANTS AND ALLIED BIRDS IN THE 

 ZOOLOGICAL PARK: 



Impeyan Lophophorus impeyanus . . .Himalayas. 



Satyra Tragopan Tragopan satyra Himalayas. 



Temminck Tragopan. .Tragopan temmincki Central China. 



Cabot Tragopan Tragopan caboti Southeast China. 



Siamese Fireback Diardigallus diardi Siam, C. China. 



Manchurian Eared. . . . Crossoptilum manchuricumMsmchuria.. 

 Black-Crested Nepal. . .Genriaews ZeMCO^netonw*. .. .Nepal, India. 



Black-Backed Pheasant.G. melanonotus East. Himalayas. 



Anderson G. andersoni Kachin Hills. 



Lineated (?. lineatus Pegu. 



Silver G. nyctfiemerus South China. 



Swinhoe G. swinhoei Formosa. 



English Phasianus colChicus Southeast Europe 



Ring-Necked P- torguatus Eastern Siberia. 



Versicolor P. versicolor Japan and China. 



