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Natural History. 



wing is taken into consideration, there can be little doubt of 

 the fact." But the largest on record was described in the Field, 

 vol. xlvi., p. 179, by the Eev. G. C. Green, who wrote : " I have 

 received the following from Mr. Kelly in consequence of a 

 discussion in the Field about the weight of a pheasant : 

 ' Some few years since, while Admiral Sir Houston Stewart 

 was residing at Gunton, he sent me a pheasant that weighed 

 61b. wanting loz. He was an old bird, and the most splendid 

 in form and plumage that I ever beheld. A few days after- 

 wards being at Gunton, I told Sir Houston that I had weighed 

 the bird, but I thought my weights must be incorrect, and 

 asked him whether he knew its weight. He said, " You are 

 quite right. I weighed it before I sent it to you, and that is 

 mj'' weight." ' " In these cases of exceptionally large birds 

 it is usually found that the extreme weight is owing to the 

 fattening influence of the maize on which they had been fed. 



The species of pheasants enumerated by Mr. Ogilvie Grant in his 

 work on Game Birds are aa follows : — • 



1. The Clommon Pheasant {Pliasianua colchicus). 



2. The Persian Pheasant (P. persiciis). 



3. Prince of Wales's Pheasant (P. principalis). 



4. Zerafshan Pheasant (P. zerafshanicus). 



5. Shaw's Pheasant (P. shawi). 



6. Tarim Pheasant (P. tarimensis). 



7. Oxus Pheasant (P. chrysomslas). 



8. Mongolian Pheasant (P. mongolicus). 



9. Chinese Pheasant (P. torquatus). 



10. The Satschuen Pheasant (P. satschuensnsis). 



11. Pormosan Pheasant (P. formosanus). 



12. Chinese Ringless Pheasant (P. decoUatus). 



13. Strauoh's Pheasant (P. strauchi). 



14. Vlangali's Pheasant (P. vlangalii). 



15. Stone's Pheasant (P. elegans). 



16. Japanese Pheasant (P. versicolor). 



17. Sa3mmerring's Pheasant (P. axmmerringi). 



18. Reeves's Pheasant (P. reevesii) ; 



in addition to which Mr. H. E. Dresser has described the following new 

 Japanese species in The Ibis for 1902, p. 656 : 



19. Ijima's'Pheasant (P. ijinice) ; 



