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  COPPER 
  PHEASANT 
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  northern 
  birds 
  was 
  thus 
  confined 
  only 
  to 
  actual 
  length, 
  not 
  to 
  the 
  relative 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  

   interspaces 
  and 
  bars, 
  which 
  remain 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  forms. 
  In 
  southern 
  Honda 
  

   scmtillans 
  grades 
  insensibly 
  into 
  soemmerringi, 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  is 
  true 
  in 
  central 
  Kiusiu 
  

   in 
  regard 
  to 
  ijimae. 
  

  

  Adult 
  Female. 
  — 
  These 
  show 
  considerable 
  variation, 
  but 
  seem, 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  most 
  

   northern 
  birds, 
  to 
  have 
  developed 
  no 
  constant 
  node 
  of 
  differentiation 
  from 
  soemmerringi. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  {Graphophasianus) 
  scintillans 
  Gould, 
  Ann. 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  His. 
  (3), 
  XVII. 
  1866, 
  p. 
  150; 
  Seebohm, 
  

   Birds 
  of 
  Japanese 
  Empire, 
  1890, 
  p. 
  371 
  ; 
  Sharpe, 
  Hand-list 
  Birds, 
  I. 
  1899, 
  p. 
  38 
  ; 
  Oates, 
  Cat. 
  Birds' 
  Eggs 
  Brit. 
  

   Mus., 
  I. 
  1901, 
  p. 
  58 
  ; 
  Tegetmeier, 
  Pheasants, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  203 
  ; 
  Ogama, 
  Annotat. 
  Zool. 
  Japon. 
  1908, 
  p. 
  356 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  

   Ibis, 
  1908, 
  p. 
  584. 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  soemmerringi, 
  var. 
  scintillans 
  Elliot, 
  Mon. 
  Phas., 
  II. 
  1872, 
  pi. 
  XIII.; 
  Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Game- 
  

   birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXI 
  1. 
  1893, 
  p. 
  337 
  ; 
  Grant, 
  Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  II. 
  1897, 
  p. 
  36 
  ; 
  Dresser, 
  Manual 
  Palaearctic 
  

   Birds, 
  pt. 
  II. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  667 
  ; 
  Buturlin, 
  Ibis, 
  1904, 
  pp. 
  377, 
  412 
  ; 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIV. 
  1904, 
  pp. 
  36, 
  

   37; 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XXI. 
  1907, 
  p. 
  24; 
  Ingram, 
  Ibis, 
  1908, 
  p. 
  168. 
  

  

  Syrmaticus 
  soemmerringii 
  scintillans 
  Beebe, 
  Zoologica, 
  I. 
  no. 
  15, 
  1914, 
  p. 
  283. 
  

  

  