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  A 
  MONOGRAPH 
  OF 
  THE 
  PHEASANTS 
  

  

  Chick 
  in 
  Down. 
  — 
  One-day-old 
  male. 
  Crown 
  dark 
  chestnut, 
  beginning 
  at 
  a 
  point 
  

   at 
  base 
  of 
  bill 
  and 
  widening 
  and 
  paling 
  posteriorly. 
  Broad 
  superciliary 
  bands 
  from 
  

   bill 
  to 
  nape 
  pale 
  buffy 
  white. 
  Narrow 
  line 
  6 
  mm. 
  long, 
  down 
  and 
  back 
  from 
  the 
  eye 
  

   to 
  the 
  ear, 
  black. 
  Broad 
  line 
  from 
  ear 
  back 
  to 
  nape, 
  dark 
  brown. 
  The 
  broad 
  chestnut 
  

   crown 
  narrows 
  and 
  darkens 
  on 
  the 
  nape, 
  and 
  extends 
  back 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  tail 
  as 
  a 
  

   broad, 
  dark-brown 
  band, 
  paling 
  laterally 
  into 
  rufous. 
  On 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  back 
  

   two 
  wide 
  longitudinal 
  bands 
  of 
  buff 
  separate 
  the 
  dark 
  brown 
  from 
  the 
  rufous. 
  Down 
  

   of 
  the 
  upper 
  arm 
  and 
  shoulder 
  of 
  wing 
  dark 
  brown 
  anteriorly, 
  paling 
  posteriorly. 
  Fore 
  

   arm 
  grey 
  ; 
  alulae 
  white. 
  Under 
  wings 
  white. 
  Tail 
  down 
  buffy 
  rufous. 
  

  

  Chin, 
  throat, 
  belly, 
  inner 
  thighs 
  and 
  under 
  tail, 
  creamy 
  white. 
  Breast 
  washed 
  with 
  

   rufous 
  buff. 
  Outer 
  thighs 
  pale 
  rufous. 
  Skin 
  of 
  eyelids 
  bluish 
  ; 
  cere, 
  base 
  of 
  mandibles 
  

   and 
  facial 
  skin 
  pink. 
  Mandibles 
  grey, 
  edges 
  and 
  egg 
  tooth 
  yellowish 
  white. 
  Legs 
  

   and 
  feet 
  pale 
  flesh-colour. 
  Spurs, 
  distinct 
  oval 
  nodules. 
  Iris, 
  stone-colour. 
  

  

  EARLY 
  HISTORY 
  AND 
  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  In 
  1 
  87 
  1 
  Swinhoe 
  secured 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  pheasants 
  in 
  Chekiang 
  which 
  he 
  recognized 
  as 
  

   representing 
  a 
  new 
  species, 
  and 
  named 
  in 
  honour 
  of 
  Dr. 
  D. 
  G. 
  Elliot. 
  He 
  very 
  

   naturally 
  placed 
  them 
  in 
  the 
  all-inclusive 
  genus 
  Phasianus, 
  but 
  Elliot, 
  recognizing 
  the 
  

   several 
  differences 
  which 
  separate 
  this 
  from 
  the 
  true 
  P/iasiamts, 
  established 
  for 
  it 
  the 
  

   new 
  generic 
  name 
  Calophasis. 
  While 
  agreeing 
  with 
  this 
  in 
  theory, 
  I 
  have 
  found 
  it 
  

   agreeable 
  to 
  my 
  researches 
  to 
  include 
  this 
  and 
  its 
  allies 
  humiae 
  and 
  foirmanicus 
  in 
  the 
  

   genus 
  Syrmaticus. 
  

  

  SYNONYMY 
  

  

  Phasianus 
  ellioti 
  Swinhoe, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1872, 
  p. 
  550 
  [Chekiang]; 
  Sclater, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1874, 
  p. 
  497; 
  

   David 
  & 
  Oustalet, 
  Oiseaux 
  de 
  la 
  Chine 
  1877, 
  p. 
  412 
  [Chekiang, 
  Eastern 
  Fokien] 
  ; 
  Sclater, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1882, 
  

   p. 
  631 
  ; 
  Sclater, 
  List 
  Animals 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  London, 
  1883, 
  p. 
  480; 
  Beddard, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1885, 
  p. 
  844; 
  La 
  Touche, 
  

   Ibis, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  410 
  [Yen-ping-fu 
  Hills] 
  ; 
  Grant, 
  Cat. 
  Birds 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  XXII. 
  1893, 
  p. 
  335 
  ; 
  Nehrkorn, 
  Katalog 
  der 
  

   Eiersammlung, 
  1899, 
  p. 
  194 
  [N.W. 
  Fokien]; 
  La 
  Touche, 
  Ibis, 
  1900, 
  p. 
  49; 
  Rickett, 
  Ibis, 
  1900, 
  p. 
  59 
  [Fokien]; 
  

   Giinther, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1904 
  (2), 
  p. 
  129; 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIV. 
  1904, 
  p. 
  37; 
  La 
  Touche 
  & 
  

   Rickett, 
  Ibis, 
  1905, 
  p. 
  58 
  [Kuatun, 
  Fokien]; 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XXI. 
  1907, 
  pp. 
  23, 
  24, 
  25 
  ; 
  Mitchell, 
  

   Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  191 
  1, 
  p. 
  521 
  ; 
  Lanning, 
  Wild 
  Life 
  in 
  China, 
  1912, 
  p. 
  116. 
  

  

  Calophasis 
  ellioti 
  Elliot, 
  Monograph 
  Phasianidae, 
  II. 
  1872, 
  text, 
  pi. 
  XIII. 
  bis.; 
  Gould, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Asia, 
  VII. 
  

   1874, 
  text, 
  pi. 
  23 
  ; 
  Grant, 
  Hand-book 
  Game-birds, 
  II. 
  1897, 
  p. 
  41 
  ; 
  Seth-Smith, 
  Avicultural 
  Magazine, 
  IV. 
  1898, 
  

   p. 
  142; 
  Sharpe, 
  Hand-list 
  Birds, 
  I. 
  1899, 
  p. 
  38; 
  Oates, 
  Cat. 
  Birds' 
  Eggs 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  I. 
  1901, 
  p. 
  58; 
  Rothschild, 
  

   Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XIV. 
  1904, 
  p. 
  58 
  ; 
  Rothschild, 
  Bull. 
  Brit. 
  Orn. 
  Club, 
  XXI. 
  1907, 
  p. 
  23 
  ; 
  Heinroth, 
  Zoologi- 
  

   scher 
  Beobachter, 
  XLIX. 
  1908, 
  p. 
  21 
  ; 
  Martens, 
  Jour, 
  fur 
  Orn. 
  1910, 
  p. 
  449 
  [Fokien]; 
  Pocock, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  

   1911, 
  p. 
  862. 
  

  

  Gallophasis 
  ellioti 
  Hume, 
  Ibis, 
  1881, 
  p. 
  608. 
  

  

  Syrmaticus 
  Ellioti, 
  Beebe, 
  Zoologica, 
  I. 
  No. 
  15, 
  1914, 
  p. 
  283. 
  

  

  