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above velvety black, the feathers on the mantle and upper parts

elongated apparently forming a shield, the lower back, rump, and upper

tail coverts olive-brown, the latter a little buff, bastard-wing and primary

coverts black, quills black, edged with ochreous-brown, and dis¬

tinguished by broad ochreous-buff bases to the feathers extending for

some distance up the inner nebs ; the inner each side of the crown,

consisting of quadrangular enamelled plates of blue above, brown

below, only found on one neb of the feather ; sides of the face and throat

velvety black like the crown, the feathers on the side of the foreneck

elongated and apparently forming a small shield, remainder of the

under-surface of the body pale yellow becoming lighter and more

isabelline on the abdomen and sides of the body, thighs dusky grey,

under-wing coverts and axillaries pale ochreous buff like the quill

lining. Total length, 8 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-85, tail 2-9,

tensus 1*3.


The Female is about the size of the male with dark brown plumage

and speckled whitish brown breast. It has not the wonderful

appendages of the male.



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Monografia dei Fagiani. By Professor H. Ghigi, Bector of the

Boulogne University. Published by Bologna : Soc. tipogr. gia

Compos, 1937.


Italians can now congratulate themselves on possessing a really

up-to-date and practical book on Pheasants, which will teach them

how to keep, breed, and rear game birds in captivity in the best

possible way.


The book describes each species and race and concludes with a

study of their lives in freedom and captivity w T ith much excellent

advice for keeping them in health and inducing them to lay and rear

their young.


The last seven chapters deal with Pheasants in pheasantries, their

requirements and food, accommodation, breeding, and rearing their



