﻿LIST 
  OF 
  COLOURED 
  PLATES 
  ix 
  

  

  Plate 
  LV. 
  KWEICHOW 
  PHEASANT 
  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  decollates 
  Swinhoe 
  

  

  Painted 
  by 
  H. 
  Jones. 
  Facing 
  page 
  1 
  10 
  

  

  Occurring 
  as 
  far 
  south 
  as 
  Tongking, 
  this 
  pheasant 
  ranges 
  higher 
  than 
  the 
  more 
  northern 
  

   forms, 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  observed 
  at 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  nine 
  thousand 
  feet. 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  prefer 
  bushy 
  

   slopes 
  to 
  the 
  dense 
  forest. 
  It 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  pheasants 
  to 
  the 
  east 
  and 
  north 
  chiefly 
  by 
  the 
  

   lack 
  of 
  a 
  white 
  collar, 
  although 
  traces 
  of 
  this 
  are 
  sometimes 
  present. 
  

  

  Plate 
  LVI. 
  FORMOSAN 
  RING-NECKED 
  PHEASANT 
  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  

  

  formosanus 
  Elliot 
  ........ 
  Facing 
  page 
  112 
  

  

  Painted 
  by 
  H. 
  Jones. 
  

  

  As 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Formosa 
  is 
  over 
  one 
  hundred 
  miles 
  from 
  shore, 
  and 
  as 
  this 
  pheasant 
  differs 
  

   from 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  neighbouring 
  mainland 
  only 
  by 
  the 
  usually 
  paler 
  plumage, 
  it 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  

   it 
  is 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  of 
  a 
  recent 
  introduction. 
  The 
  cocks 
  show 
  considerable 
  variation 
  among 
  

   themselves 
  and 
  the 
  females 
  are 
  quite 
  indistinguishable 
  from 
  the 
  birds 
  of 
  the 
  eastern 
  Chinese 
  

   Provinces. 
  

  

  Plate 
  LVI 
  I. 
  MANCHURIAN 
  RING-NECKED 
  PHEASANT 
  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  

  

  pallasi 
  Rothschild 
  ....... 
  Facing 
  page 
  114 
  

  

  Painted 
  by 
  H. 
  Jones. 
  

  

  This 
  pheasant, 
  from 
  the 
  far 
  north-east 
  of 
  China, 
  possesses 
  the 
  widest 
  and 
  most 
  complete 
  

   white 
  collar. 
  It 
  is 
  never 
  found 
  high 
  up 
  on 
  the 
  mountains, 
  but 
  usually 
  on 
  the 
  more 
  sheltered 
  

   lower 
  slopes 
  or 
  on 
  the 
  flat 
  bushy 
  plains. 
  

  

  Plate 
  LVI 
  1 
  1. 
  KOBDO 
  PHEASANT 
  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  hagenbecki 
  Rothschild 
  

  

  Painted 
  by 
  H. 
  Jones. 
  Facing 
  page 
  116 
  

  

  Little 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  this 
  form 
  from 
  the 
  Kobdo 
  valley. 
  It 
  very 
  closely 
  resembles 
  pallasi, 
  

   fifteen 
  hundred 
  miles 
  to 
  the 
  east, 
  while 
  to 
  the 
  west 
  it 
  is 
  separated 
  from 
  mongolicus 
  by 
  only 
  a 
  

   single 
  range 
  of 
  mountains, 
  yet 
  it 
  differs 
  radically 
  in 
  colour 
  from 
  that 
  form. 
  

  

  Plate 
  LIX. 
  EASTERN 
  CHINESE 
  RING-NECKED 
  PHEASANT 
  Phasianus 
  

  

  colchicus 
  torquatus 
  Gmelin 
  ...... 
  Facing 
  page 
  120 
  

  

  Painted 
  by 
  H. 
  Jones. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  Ring-necked 
  Pheasant 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  introduced 
  so 
  widely 
  into 
  America 
  and, 
  

   especially 
  in 
  the 
  west, 
  has 
  increased 
  so 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  to 
  be 
  kept 
  down 
  to 
  prevent 
  damage 
  to 
  crops. 
  

  

  Its 
  habits 
  in 
  general 
  throughout 
  the 
  east 
  of 
  China, 
  from 
  Pekin 
  to 
  Canton, 
  differ 
  not 
  at 
  

   all 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  in 
  our 
  own 
  country. 
  They 
  feed 
  morning 
  and 
  evening, 
  rest 
  during 
  

   the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  day, 
  roost 
  on 
  the 
  ground, 
  lay 
  six 
  to 
  twelve 
  eggs 
  on 
  debris 
  in 
  grassy 
  or 
  shrubby 
  

   places. 
  The 
  young 
  birds 
  acquire 
  the 
  adult 
  plumage 
  the 
  first 
  autumn. 
  As 
  many 
  as 
  eighteen 
  

   hundred 
  and 
  one 
  have 
  been 
  shot 
  in 
  twenty-three 
  days 
  on 
  the 
  Yangtse. 
  

  

  Plate 
  LX. 
  GREEN 
  JAPANESE 
  PHEASANT 
  Phasianus 
  versicolor 
  Vieillot 
  

  

  Painted 
  by 
  H.Jones. 
  Facing 
  page 
  130 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  second 
  full 
  species 
  of 
  its 
  genus, 
  found 
  only 
  in 
  Japan, 
  and 
  showing 
  remarkable 
  

   little 
  variation. 
  As 
  it 
  prefers 
  lowlands 
  to 
  the 
  slopes 
  of 
  mountains, 
  it 
  is 
  seldom 
  found 
  far 
  away 
  

   from 
  the 
  coast, 
  and 
  it 
  chooses 
  to 
  visit 
  the 
  gardens 
  of 
  the 
  farms 
  rather 
  frequently. 
  

  

  The 
  last 
  view 
  I 
  had 
  of 
  Kiji 
  in 
  their 
  native 
  home 
  was 
  on 
  a 
  perfect 
  day 
  in 
  Kagoghima. 
  I 
  

   was 
  returning 
  from 
  a 
  long 
  day's 
  tramp 
  after 
  Ijima's 
  Copper 
  Pheasants, 
  when 
  for 
  a 
  few 
  minutes 
  

   a 
  splendid 
  cock 
  Green 
  Pheasant 
  stood 
  outlined 
  at 
  the 
  summit 
  of 
  a 
  gentle 
  rise. 
  The 
  setting 
  

   was 
  : 
  the 
  deep 
  blue 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  bay, 
  the 
  pale 
  blue 
  of 
  the 
  sky, 
  the 
  clear 
  green 
  of 
  graceful, 
  

   aged 
  pines, 
  while 
  over 
  all 
  towered 
  the 
  majestic, 
  purpled 
  cone 
  of 
  Sakuragima. 
  

  

  