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  EASTERN 
  CHINESE 
  RING-NECKED 
  PHEASANT 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  colchicus 
  torqtiatus 
  Gmelin 
  

  

  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 
  have 
  been 
  shot 
  in 
  

   twenty-three 
  days 
  on 
  the 
  Yangtse. 
  

  

  