﻿COREAN 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  karpowi 
  Buturlin 
  

  

  NAMES.— 
  Subspecific 
  : 
  karpoivi, 
  named 
  in 
  honour 
  of 
  A. 
  W. 
  Karpow, 
  who 
  collected 
  the 
  type 
  specimen. 
  

   English: 
  Corean 
  Ring-necked 
  Pheasant. 
  Japanese: 
  Korai-kiji 
  (Corean 
  Pheasant). 
  

  

  TYPE. 
  — 
  Locality 
  : 
  Te-lin, 
  Southern 
  Manchuria. 
  Describer 
  : 
  Buturlin. 
  Place 
  of 
  Description 
  : 
  Orn. 
  Monatb., 
  

   XII. 
  1904, 
  p. 
  3. 
  

  

  SUBSPECIFIC 
  CHARACTERS. 
  — 
  Very 
  close 
  to 
  torquatus, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  flank-feathers 
  darker, 
  more 
  of 
  a 
  golden- 
  

   brown. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHICAL 
  DISTRIBUTION 
  

  

  Southern 
  Manchuria 
  throughout 
  Corea, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Tsushima. 
  In 
  

   Manchuria 
  it 
  extends 
  as 
  far 
  north 
  as 
  Kirin. 
  I 
  have 
  a 
  specimen 
  from 
  Chaoyang 
  in 
  

   Chili, 
  which 
  is 
  typical 
  karpowi, 
  except 
  that 
  the 
  sub-aural 
  white 
  spots 
  are 
  very 
  faint. 
  

   This 
  form, 
  doubtless, 
  merges 
  with 
  both 
  pallasi 
  and 
  torquatus 
  at 
  certain 
  points 
  of 
  

   contact. 
  

  

  GENERAL 
  ACCOUNT 
  

  

  In 
  answer 
  to 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  questions, 
  Mr. 
  Roy 
  C. 
  Andrews 
  has 
  kindly 
  given 
  me 
  an 
  

   excellent 
  summary 
  of 
  his 
  knowledge 
  of 
  these 
  birds. 
  He 
  says, 
  " 
  In 
  southern 
  Corea 
  I 
  

   hunted 
  pheasants 
  at 
  Ulsan, 
  forty 
  miles 
  north 
  of 
  Fusan, 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast. 
  The 
  country 
  

   there 
  consists 
  of 
  a 
  succession 
  of 
  hills 
  from 
  fifty 
  to 
  five 
  hundred 
  feet 
  high 
  with 
  narrow 
  and 
  

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

   covered 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  with 
  bush-firs 
  from 
  two 
  to 
  four 
  feet 
  high. 
  The 
  summits 
  of 
  the 
  

   hills 
  are 
  frequently 
  sparsely 
  wooded 
  with 
  fir-trees 
  ten 
  to 
  twenty 
  feet 
  high. 
  The 
  valleys 
  

   are 
  almost 
  always 
  of 
  terraced 
  rice 
  paddys 
  ; 
  along 
  the 
  edges 
  there 
  are 
  pools 
  and 
  streamlets 
  

   and 
  also 
  a 
  considerable 
  amount 
  of 
  standing 
  water 
  in 
  the 
  paddys 
  themselves 
  when 
  the 
  

   days 
  are 
  warm 
  enough 
  for 
  the 
  ground 
  to 
  thaw. 
  The 
  pheasants 
  were 
  hunted 
  during 
  

   January 
  and 
  February, 
  and 
  at 
  this 
  season 
  were 
  always 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  hills 
  and 
  

   in 
  the 
  low 
  bush-firs, 
  and 
  seldom, 
  if 
  ever, 
  on 
  the 
  summits. 
  

  

  " 
  During 
  these 
  months 
  the 
  Corean 
  Pheasant 
  gave 
  no 
  call 
  ; 
  no 
  sound 
  of 
  any 
  kind 
  was 
  

   uttered 
  by 
  either 
  the 
  male 
  or 
  female. 
  In 
  the 
  spring, 
  however, 
  I 
  was 
  told 
  that 
  the 
  

   pheasant 
  is 
  continually 
  crowing. 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  have 
  never 
  witnessed 
  fighting 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  males 
  or 
  seen 
  any 
  evidence 
  of 
  it. 
  

   The 
  heat 
  of 
  the 
  day 
  is 
  spent 
  in 
  the 
  cover 
  of 
  the 
  low 
  bush-firs 
  on 
  the 
  ground, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  

   impossible 
  to 
  flush 
  the 
  birds 
  during 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  day. 
  I 
  have 
  repeatedly 
  hunted 
  

   them 
  from 
  twelve 
  o'clock 
  till 
  three, 
  and 
  was 
  never 
  able 
  to 
  put 
  a 
  bird 
  up, 
  but 
  later 
  in 
  the 
  

   day, 
  over 
  the 
  same 
  ground, 
  any 
  number 
  would 
  rise. 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  flight 
  is 
  a 
  succession 
  of 
  rapid 
  wing-beats, 
  followed 
  by 
  intervals 
  of 
  sailing. 
  

  

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