17:? The Common Pheasant. 



tinged with brown on the outer edges. The tail is dull greenish- 

 yellow, variegated with yellowish-grey, the feathers Avith 

 narrow transverse bars of black, a broad longitudinal band 

 of dull red on each side, the loose margins red, glossed with 

 green and purple. On the abdomen and legs the feathers are 

 dull greyish-brown ; under the tail variegated with reddish. 

 The lower surface of the wing is yellowish-grey. 



"Length to end of tail, 34 inches; extent of wings, 32 ; 

 wing from flexure, 10 ; tail, 18-| ; bill along the back, l-,*j ; along 

 the edge of upper mandible, IfV ; tarsus, B^^ ; first toe, ylr, its 

 claw, ^; second toe, l-j%, its claw, -/W; third toe, 2j%, its claw, 

 Yi ; fourth toe, 1^^, its claw, 4^ twelfths. 



" Of three other individuals, the length 34, 35, 86 inches. 



" Female. — The female is similar in form to the male, but 

 with the tail much shorter. The bill and feet require no 

 particular description. The anterior scutella of the tarsus are 

 about seventeen in each row ; the first toe has five, the second 

 fifteen, the third twentj'-two, the fourth eighteen. As in the 

 male, there is a bare space under the eye, but scarcely papillar, 

 and more feathered. The feathers of the upper part of the 

 upper part of the head are somewhat elongated ; those of the 

 rest of the head short ; of the neck and body oblong and 

 rounded ; of the rump not elongated as in the male. 



" The general colour of the upper parts is greyish-yellow 

 variegated with black and yellowish-brown ; the top of the 

 head and the hind-neck tinged with red. The wing-coverts 

 are lighter ; the quills pale greyish-brown, mottled with 

 greyish-yellow, as in the male. The tail is yellowish-grey, 

 minutely mottled with black, and having, in place of transverse 

 Ijars, obhque irregular spots of black, centred with a pale 

 j^ellow line. The lower parts are lighter and less mottled, 

 the throat whitish and without spots. The bill is horn-coloured, 

 tinged with green ; the tarsi wood-brown, the toes darker, the 

 claws of the same tint. 



" Length, 26 inches ; extent of wings, 30 ; wing from flexure, 

 91 ; tail, 11|- ; bill along the back, IJ ; tarsus, 2| ; first toe, ^-, 



