THE AMHERST PHEASANT 



would doubtless be as easily kept in our aviaries as its known 

 ally the Golden Pheasant, and it is my urgent wish to see 

 it thus located before I leave this lower world for the higher 

 and brighter one that is the end of all our hopes and desires. 

 " I rides, white ; naked skin surrounding the eyes, light 

 verditer blue ; feathers of the crown, green, crossed with 

 crimson ; pendant tippet, white, each feather tipped with a 

 narrow crescentic dark green tone, with an edging of a lighter 

 tint, and a straight point of the same kind about J of an inch 

 from the tip ; neck, back, shoulders, chest and wing coverts, 

 beautiful metallic green, each feather tipped with a broad zone of 

 velvety black ; primaries, dark brown, with lighter shafts and 

 white edgings ; greater wing coverts and secondaries, bluish- 

 black ; breast and tail, white ; thighs and under-tail coverts, 

 mottled brown and white ; legs, light blue ; feathers of the 

 rump, brown at the base, green in the middle, and the exposed 

 portion, bright saffron yellow ; tail coverts, brown at base, 

 barred with green and white in the middle, and ending in 

 scarlet ; two broad middle tail feathers, olive grey, crossed 

 with bars of green, about | of an inch apart, between which 

 are a series of oblique wavy lines of a blackish-brown. 

 Remaining feathers have the inner web narrow and mottled 

 with black and white ; the outer web, with curved brownish- 

 green bars, about | of an inch apart, on a ground the inner 

 portion of which is greyish-white, the outer chestnut brown." 



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