PHEASAJ^TS. 
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The comraon Pheasant is one of our most ornamental birds^ 
and there is no reason why in course of time other species 
should not be as common ; such as that very long-plumed 
pheasant from Japan^ named by Dr. Gray after Mr. Eeeve j 
the gorgeous Gold Pheasant of China [Thaumalea picta) ; 
the still more striking Amherst Pheasant [Thaumalea Am- 
Jierstm, Plate XVI. fig. 3)^ a native of Tibet, with its curi- 
ous neck-ruff of white and black plumes, like a ruff turned 
down. Mr. Benjamin Leadbeater figured this noble phea- 
sant in the ^Linnean Transactions^ (vol. xvi. pi. xv. and p. 
129). The Countess Amherst brought two males alive with 
her from India in 1828 : they only survived the voyage a 
few weeks. Mr. Leadbeater got one of these two from her 
ladyship, and mounted the other with that skill for which 
he and his son have obtained a name. The two specimens 
were brought from the mountains of Cochin China, and were 
presented by the King of Ava to Sir Archibald Campbell, 
who gave them to Lady Amherst. Mr. Bryan Hodgson 
procured specimens of this rare bird, now in the British 
Museum collection. , We hope some day to see this noblest 
of the family displaying his beauty and gallantry in one of 
the paddocks of the Regent^s Park. 
The Monaul {LophojpJwnis Impeyanu%) has been brought 
