THE


Avicultural Magazine


THE JOURNAL OF THE

AVICULTURAL SOCIETY



Fifth Series. —-VoL II L—No. 7.— All rights reserved. JULY, 1938.



THE PAIRING DISPLAY OF BULWER’S

PHEASANT


(Lobiophasis bulweri Sharpe)


By 0. Heinroth


Reprinted from Journal fur Ornithologie, 86, No. 1, 1938, by kind permission of


the Author.


In the last few years a few Bulwer Pheasants of both sexes have

reached Europe, first of all the London Zoological Gardens and the

Pheasantry of J. Spedan Lewis near London, then M. J. Delacour at

Cleres, to the north of Paris. On 27th November, 1930, a cock not in

plumage arrived at the Berlin Zoological Garden, which during the

following summer assumed its gorgeous feathers and lived until the

21st July, 1932.


The species Lobiophasis, which only consists of one kind and is

distributed over the interior of Borneo, resembles most closely the

Lophura ; in his monograph on Pheasants, vol. ii, pp. 146-165,

Beebe has collected probably all that is known about their life in natural

surroundings. According to his observations, the birds have two chicks

which are accompanied by the parents. The cock, which is very

conspicuous through its white tail, leaves the nest at the least alarm,

whereas the insignificant chicks and hens remain motionless and quiet.


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