Vol. 8, No. 4 
Page 3 
Kansas pheasants. Although reduced, the similarities to wild-Kansas birds were 
0 still evident the following year. Wi1d-I 11inois birds were released on the area 
during the winters preceding the breeding seasons of i960, 1961, and 1963, but not 
preceding the breeding season of 1962. Measurements of native birds were never 
closely related to those of Korean, California, or Japanese pheasants. Therefore, 
according to the morphological measurements taken, selection within the gene pool 
favored, in a relative sense, the genetic constitutions of wild-11linois and wild- 
Kansas pheasants over those of Korean, California, and Japanese pheasants. 
Table 2. Means of measurements (in millimeters) of juvenile pheasants released at 
Neoga, Illinois, December-March, 1959-60 through 1962—63- 
5 
ra 
Strains 7> 
of | 
Pheasants 
CD 
c 
s 
Exposed Cull 
-0 
3 
(D 
X 
<u 
2 : 
Tarsus 
Middle Toe 
Middle C1au 
Middle Toe 
Juveni1e Cocks 
Wi ld-111inois 
246.1 
3i -3 
13.6 
“ 
47.6 
13.2 
60.7 
Wi 1d-Kansas 
240.4 
32.8 
13.7 
64.9 
45.4 
13.6 
59-0 
Korean 
230.9 
32.4 
12.6 
64.0 
46.1 
13.3 
59-3 
California 
234.6 
29.8 
12.9 
— - -V? 
46.0 
11-5 
57-*+ 
Japanese 
227.5 
32.2 
12.5 
62.1 
46.7 
13.9 
60.6 
Juveni1e Hens 
Wi1d-111inois 
216.2 
27.9 
11.9 
60.3 
42.3 
11.8 
54.2 
Wi1d-Kansas 
210.7 
28.3 
12.0 
57-7 
40.5 
12.5 
53-0 
Korean 
202.9 
27.8 
10.8 
55-3 
40.9 
1 1 .6 
52.5 
California 
209-6 
26.6 
11 .4 
59-4 
40.5 
10.9 
51.3 
Japanese 
202.5 
27.8 
11.1 
54.3 
41.1 
11 .8 
53-0 
* Measurements not taken. 
