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PHASIANUS COLCHICUS. 



(PHEASANT.) 



Phasianus, Briss. Orn. i. p. 262 (1760). 



Phasiaiius varius, Briss. torn. cit. p. 267, pi. xxv. fig. 3 (1760). 



Phasianus colchicus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 271 (1766). 



Le Faisan, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 328 (1771). 



Phasianus marginatus, Wolf, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. i. p. 291 (1810). 



Faisan, French ; Fagiano, Italian ; Edelfasan, German. 



Figurm notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 121, 122 ; Frisch, Yog. Deutschl. taf. 123, 124 ; Naumann, Vog. 

 Deutschl. taf. 162; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 74. fig. 2; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 247; 

 id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 12 ; Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. pi. 57; Elliot, Monogr. Phas. ii. pi. 2. 



c? ad. pileo viridi-nigro : collo superiore nigro, purpureo violaceo nitente, coilo imo et dorsi plumis aurantiacis 

 nigro margin atis et notatis, scapularibus et plumis in dorso imo magis aeneo-rufescentibus et cervino 

 notatis : remigibus fuscis ochraceo transfasciatis : tectricibus alarum olivaceo-aurantiacis seneo-purpureo 

 et ochraceo variegatis ; uropygio et supracaudalibus rufescentibus purpureo tinctis : cauda olivaceo- 

 aurantiaca nigro transfasciata, rectricibus centralibus rufescente seneo marginatis : pectore et hypo- 

 chondriis aurantiacis nigro marginatis : abdomine centraliter cseruleo-nigro : rostro corneo-albo, parte 

 nuda in faciei lateribus coccinea : pedibus fuscis : iride saturate fusca. 



5 ad. corpore supra cum capite et collo ochraceo-cervinis, nigro et nigro-fusco notatis et fasciatis : collo et 

 pectore vix vinaceo tinctis : corpore subtiis ochraceo-cervino, nigricanti vermiculato et sparse eodem 

 colore notato : rectricibus centraliter nigro-fuscis, ochraceo et fulvido variegatis, et lateraliter ochraceis 

 nigricanti vermiculatis : capitis lateribus haud nudis. 



Adult Male (Ismidt, 20th January). Crown and nape black, richly glossed with bottle-green; sides of the 

 head, except the bare portion, chin, and upper throat and neck blackish, richly glossed with violet- 

 purple; feathers on the lower neck, breast, and fore part of the back black on the basal portion, then 

 rufescent golden, margined with black, many having an apical black spot ; on the scapulars and rest of 

 the back the golden hue deepens into coppery purple, and most of the feathers have a central horse- 

 shoe-shaped buff mark ; quills dark brown, slightly barred with ochreous buff; wing-coverts golden 

 olivaceous, varied with coppery purple and ochreous ; rump and upper tail-coverts rich fiery reddish, 

 glossed with purple ; tail golden-olivaceous with central bars of black, the central feathers margined 

 with fiery purple ; flanks like the breast, but more golden-orange in tinge ; centre of the abdomen 

 black with a bluish tinge ; bill pale whitish horn ; wattles on the sides of the head rich vermilion-red 

 or blood-red ; legs dull brown ; iris deep brown. Total length about 33 inches, culmen l - 2, wing 9 - 3, 

 tail 18"2, central rectrices 13 - 5, longer than the outside ones, tarsus 2'7. 



Adult Female (Ismidt) . Upper parts generally black, the feathers broadly margined with clay-buff, the neck 

 washed with warm vinaceous; underparts clay- buff, vermiculated with blackish, the black bases of the 



