RING PHEASANT. 



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tail-coverts lead- coloured j back deep black, spotted ante- 

 riorly with yellowish, variegated posteriorly with white and 

 red. 



Phasianus torquatus. Leach. Zool. Misc. 2, 14. — Gmel. Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 743. 



Phasianus torquatus/ /?nwM5. Temm. Gall. Ind.Oyo. 

 Phasianus colchicus /3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 4. 

 Le Faisan ^ collier blanc de la Chine. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 

 2. 326. 



Ring Pheasant. Leach. Zool, Misc. 2. 14. pi. 66. — Lath. Syn. 

 4. y\5.—Lath. Syn. Sup. 208. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 



The Ring Pheasant occurs in great abundance 

 in the northern forests of the vast empire of 

 China : it is much less than the common Pheasant, 

 rarely exceeding two feet six inches in length : 

 the male has the upper part of the liead fawn- 

 coloured, shaded with bright green : over each 

 €ye is a white dash : the upper part of the neck, 

 the throat, and the feathers, which form a ruff on 

 each side of the occiput, are of a fine deep green, 

 with violet reflections : a collar of a pure white 

 encircles about one third of the length of the neck ; 

 this is broadest on the sides : the feathers of the 

 top of the back are black in the middle, and 

 varied with a zigzag whitish band ; they are 

 edged with a deep border of ochrey yellow, and 

 are marked with a sagittal black line at their tip : 

 the scapulars are black at their base, with a whitish 

 yellow spot in their centres, encircled with a ring 

 of black ; the rest chesnut glossed with purple : 

 the lower part of the back and the rump are varied 

 with different hues of green, shaded towards their 

 sides with greyish : the upper tail-coverts are clear 



