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  Photogravure 
  51. 
  HAUNTS 
  OF 
  THE 
  COREAN 
  RING-NECKED 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Photographs 
  by 
  Roy 
  C. 
  Andrews. 
  Facing 
  page 
  128 
  

  

  Typical 
  pheasant 
  country 
  in 
  Corea 
  consists 
  of 
  hills 
  fifty 
  to 
  five 
  hundred 
  feet 
  high, 
  with 
  

   warm 
  and 
  deep 
  valleys 
  between. 
  The 
  hills 
  are 
  of 
  red 
  and 
  yellow 
  clay 
  with 
  little 
  rock, 
  and 
  are 
  

   covered 
  on 
  the 
  side 
  with 
  bush 
  firs 
  two 
  to 
  four 
  feet 
  high, 
  while 
  the 
  summits 
  are 
  sparsely 
  wooded 
  

   with 
  larger 
  trees. 
  

  

  In 
  some 
  localities 
  fifty 
  birds 
  may 
  be 
  shot 
  in 
  a 
  day. 
  In 
  the 
  rice 
  districts 
  the 
  pheasants 
  

   feed 
  to 
  a 
  large 
  extent 
  on 
  this 
  grain 
  and 
  on 
  millet 
  and 
  small 
  red 
  berries. 
  

  

  Photogravure 
  52. 
  HOME 
  OF 
  THE 
  JAPANESE 
  GREEN 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Photographs 
  by 
  William 
  Beebe. 
  Facing 
  page 
  134 
  

  

  The 
  shores 
  of 
  the 
  myriad 
  lakes 
  which 
  surround 
  Mount 
  Fuji 
  are 
  often 
  tracked 
  up 
  by 
  small 
  

   parties 
  of 
  pheasants 
  which 
  come 
  down 
  to 
  drink. 
  They 
  wander 
  only 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  up 
  the 
  

   slopes 
  and 
  hide 
  their 
  eggs 
  beneath 
  some 
  dense-foliaged 
  pine, 
  or 
  close 
  to 
  a 
  fallen 
  tree 
  or 
  

   boulder. 
  The 
  breeding 
  begins 
  in 
  March 
  and 
  extends 
  through 
  April 
  and 
  May, 
  and 
  only 
  a 
  

   single 
  brood 
  is 
  reared 
  in 
  a 
  season. 
  

  

  JAPANESE 
  PHEASANT 
  BY 
  HOKASAI 
  

  

  Hokasai, 
  who 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  1760 
  and 
  died 
  in 
  1849, 
  was 
  the 
  greatest 
  of 
  Japanese 
  painters. 
  

   He 
  lived 
  simply, 
  worked 
  diligently 
  and 
  painted 
  many 
  subjects, 
  bridges, 
  waterfalls, 
  Mount 
  Fuji, 
  

   portraits 
  and 
  objects 
  of 
  natural 
  history. 
  

  

  Photogravure 
  53. 
  NEST 
  AND 
  EGGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  JAPANESE 
  GREEN 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Photographs 
  by 
  William 
  Beebe. 
  Facing 
  page 
  138 
  

  

  The 
  nest 
  is 
  placed 
  on 
  the 
  ground, 
  without 
  a 
  special 
  lining 
  except 
  for 
  dead 
  leaves 
  and 
  

   other 
  debris 
  which 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  the 
  depression 
  when 
  first 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  hen. 
  The 
  eggs 
  

   are 
  the 
  smallest 
  of 
  all 
  this 
  group 
  of 
  pheasants, 
  and 
  vary 
  in 
  colour 
  from 
  pale 
  stone-colour 
  to 
  

   dark 
  brown. 
  

  

  The 
  hawks, 
  kites, 
  crows, 
  magpies, 
  weasels 
  and 
  snakes 
  are 
  enemies 
  both 
  of 
  eggs 
  and 
  newly 
  

   hatched 
  young 
  birds. 
  

  

  Photogravure 
  54. 
  HOME 
  OF 
  REEVES'S 
  PHEASANT 
  IN 
  CENTRAL 
  CHINA 
  

  

  Photographs 
  by 
  William 
  Beebe. 
  Facing 
  page 
  150 
  

  

  The 
  favourite 
  haunt 
  of 
  the 
  Reeves 
  is 
  in 
  certain 
  mid-reaches 
  of 
  the 
  Yangtse 
  where 
  black, 
  

   frowning 
  cliffs 
  rise 
  sheer 
  hundreds 
  of 
  feet 
  above 
  either 
  bank, 
  covered 
  with 
  gnarled, 
  stunted 
  

   vegetation 
  which 
  is 
  deformed 
  by 
  the 
  elements 
  and 
  scanty 
  nourishment. 
  

  

  Once 
  when 
  a 
  line 
  of 
  beaters 
  was 
  trying 
  to 
  locate 
  a 
  young 
  tiger 
  which 
  had 
  made 
  a 
  kill, 
  two 
  

   cock 
  Reeves 
  flushed 
  suddenly, 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  rose 
  straight 
  ahead, 
  high 
  up 
  over 
  the 
  pines, 
  while 
  

   the 
  other 
  bird 
  doubled 
  back 
  suddenly 
  and 
  shot 
  past 
  with 
  terrific 
  speed, 
  dodging 
  the 
  beaters 
  

   and 
  the 
  trunks 
  of 
  the 
  trees 
  with 
  such 
  sharp 
  turns 
  that 
  the 
  long, 
  flowing 
  tail-feathers 
  seemed 
  

   fairly 
  to 
  curl 
  around 
  the 
  trunks 
  as 
  the 
  bird 
  veered 
  past. 
  

  

  Photogravure 
  55. 
  JAPANESE 
  HOME 
  OF 
  THE 
  COPPER 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Photographs 
  by 
  William 
  Beebe. 
  Facing 
  page 
  160 
  

  

  These 
  beautiful 
  birds 
  like 
  the 
  shelter 
  of 
  low 
  grass 
  and 
  bamboo, 
  and 
  come 
  into 
  the 
  open 
  

   to 
  feed 
  upon 
  grubs 
  and 
  insects 
  and 
  acorns. 
  They 
  haunt 
  the 
  same 
  places 
  throughout 
  the 
  heat 
  

   of 
  summer 
  and 
  the 
  bitter 
  winds 
  of 
  winter, 
  often 
  roosting 
  in 
  trees 
  and 
  feeding 
  along 
  the 
  margin 
  

   of 
  streams, 
  almost 
  always 
  within 
  sight 
  of 
  the 
  splendour 
  of 
  Fuji. 
  

  

  