H A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



possession of our nobility, and some curious gentlemen, and have been favoured with 

 one of them, newly dead, by the lady of Sir John Hathcote, Bart., which has enabled 

 me to be more exact in every particular of my figure than I could otherwise, or any have 

 hitherto been. These birds are pretty hardy, and bear our climate very well ; and I 

 believe, were they brought with their hens, might be bred with a little care. Sir Hans 

 Sloane has the cock now living, which this figure represents ; and I think, if I remember 

 right, he has had it about fifteen years." 



Thirteen more years passed before a scientific name was bestowed on it by Brisson, 

 Phasianus aureus sinensis, descriptive, indeed, but which unfortunately had the demerit 

 of too extreme priority, and must yield to Linnaeus' Phasiamcs pidus, given in 1766. 

 The succeeding nomenclatural history was undisturbed by incident until sixty-six years 

 later, when Wagler removed the Golden Pheasant from Phasianus and called it 

 Thaunialea. But here complications arose, for in the preceding year an entomologist 

 named Ruthe had applied this term to a group of Diptera. So the next synonym in 

 order, Chrysolophus, so called by J. E. Gray in 1834, stands as the accepted generic 

 name. 



The fact that Linnaeus placed the Golden Pheasant in his genus Phasianus carried 

 no especial significance, owing to the all-inclusiveness of that group in the mind of the 

 Swedish naturalist. When both this and its complementary species, the Amherst, were 

 removed from Phasianus by Wagler, they were with no uncertainty given a genus of 

 their own, and there has never been any doubt as to the correctness of this view. Elliot 

 in his " Monograph of the Phasianidae " is not altogether consistent, as under the head of 

 Classification on page xiii, he says: "This is followed by Phasianinae, comprising 

 Phasianus, Thaumalea, Euplocamus and Ithaginis," while later, on pp. xx and xxi, he 

 represents the subfamily Phasianinae as containing only the first two of these genera, 

 while the two latter are grouped under Euplocaminae. 



SYNONYMY 



Red Pheasant Cock from China, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. III. 1740, p. 34, pi. xxxvi. 



Painted Pheasant fro7n China, Edvv. Nat. Hist. B. H. 1747, pi. 68. 



Phasianus aureus sinensis Briss. Orn. I. 1760, p. 271. 



Phasianus pictus, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, p. 272 ; Gm. S. N. I. pt. II. 1788, p. 743 ; Latham, Ind. Orn. H. 1790, 

 p. 630; Bonnat, Tab!. Encycl. M^th., I. 1791, p. 186, pi. 88, fig. 4; Shaw, Mus. Lever. 1792, p. 204, pi. ; Hayes, 

 Osterl. Menag. 1794, p. 5, pis. 5 & 6; Pallas, Zoogr. Russo-Asiat. U. 1811, p. 86; Temm. Pig. et. Gall. H. 1813, 

 p. 341, HI. 1815, p. 671; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XI. 1817, p. 41 ; Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 1819, 

 p. 231 ; Werner, Atl. Ois. d'Eur., Ord. 10, 1828, pi. 3 ; Griff, ed. Cuv. III. 1829, p. 23 ; Lesson, Traite d'Orn. 1831. 

 p. 495, pi. 83, fig. 2; Schinz, Nat. Abbild. Vog. 1833, p. 250, pi. 96; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. IV. 1834, p. 209, 

 pi. XVIII ; Schinz, Nat. Vog. 1853, p. 149, pi. 72 ; Gadow, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1882, p. 327. 



Le Faisan dare D'Aubent. PI. Enl. pi. 217 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. II. 1771, p. 355. 



Paiftted Pheasant Latham, Gen. Syn. II. 1783, p. 717; id. Gen. Hist. VIII. 1823, p. 194. 



Thaumalea picta Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1228 ; Gray, List of B. pt. III. Gall. 1844, p. 24; id. Gen. B. III. 1845, 

 p. 497; id. Cat. Hodgson, ed. I. 1846, p. 124; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 307 ; Sclater, List of Phas. 1863, 

 p. S ; Fitz. Atl. Nat. Vog. 1864, fig. 228; Gould, B. Asia, VII. 1866, pi. 19; David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. VII. 1871, 

 p. II [Sze-chuen]; Elliot, Monog. Phas. II. 1872, pi. XV [text]; David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1877, p. 414 

 [S. and S.VV. Provs. of China as far as Sin-ling Mts.]; Pratt, To the Snows of Tibet, 1892, pp. 22, 48, 236; 

 Tegetmeier, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. VII. 1898, p. XXVII; Tegetmeier, Pheasants, 1904, p. 204; Mitchell, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1911, p. 521. 



Chrysolophus pictus J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. II. 1834, pi. 41, fig. 2; G. R. Gray, List Gallinae Brit. Mus. 

 1867, p, 29; id. Hand-list of Birds II. 1870, p. 258; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 187 i,p 398 [W. China to Koko-nor] ; 

 Grant, Cat. Game-birds Brit. Mus. XXII., 1893, p. 339; Grant, Hand-book of Game-birds, II. 1897, p. 45; 

 Seth-Smith, Avicultural Magazine, IV. 1898, p. 142; Sharpe, Hand-list of Birds, I. 1899, p. 38; Nehrkorn, Katalog 



