ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



X umber 46 



Published by the New York Zoological Society 



July, 1911 



THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S PHEASANT EXPEDITION. 



By C. William Beebe. 



Photographs by the author. 



THIS expedition, organized for the purpose by a great number of photographs and sketches, 



of gathering original data for the prepara- concerning the habits and ecology of the pheas- 



tion of a monograph of the pheasants, jun- ants found in the countries visited, much of the 



glefowl and peafowl, and made possible by the material being new to science. Although the 



generous gift of Colonel Anthony R. Kuser, collecting of living birds was a secondary ob- 



has now been completed. The most sanguine ject of the expedition, several large shipments 



expectations were exceeded in the amount of were sent back. Among these were included 



territory covered and the results attained. the Indian Black-Backed Goose, (Sarcidiornis 



Voluminous notes have been taken, reinforced melanoiwnta) , Indian House Crow, (Corvus 



5SOV)3 



HOME OF THE PEAFOWL AND CEYLON JUNGLEFOWL. 

 Semi-arid region of acacias and euphorbias bordering a salt lagoon, near the coast of south Ceylon. 



