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PHEASANT RAISING IN THE UNITED STATES. 
northerly member of the genus. These pheasants lack the timidity so 
characteristic of most of the pheasant family and would probably lend 
themselves readily to domestication. At present their high price—$40 
to $60 a pair—is practically prohibitive of any extensive attempt to 
domesticate them, but should they become more common, they would 
be excellent subjects for such experiments. 
Other aviary pheasants are the horned pheasants ( Tragopan , fig. 8), 
large, brilliantly plumaged birds, whose ranges extend from the Hima¬ 
layas to central China; the firebacks ( LopJiura ), likewise large, 
bright-feathered birds, from the Shan States, Cochin China, and the 
southern islands from Sumatra to Borneo; the peacock pheasants 
Fig. 9.—Monaul (Lophophorus refulgens). (From photograph of speci¬ 
men in the U. S. National Museum mounted by Harry Denslow. The 
light area on the wing is due to reflected light from its iridescent 
feathers.) 
(Polyjrtectron) , from the same general region; the monauls (Lopho¬ 
sphorus, fig. 9), from the wooded heights of the Himalayas, the best 
known of which is the gorgeously iridescent impeyan pheasant; the 
Argus pheasants (Argusianus) , the most expensive of all the pheas¬ 
ants and rarely imported from their home in Siam and islands to the 
southward; the blood pheasants ( Ithaginis ), from the high mountains 
of eastern Tibet, northern India, and western China; the koklass 
pheasants ( Pucrasia ), mountain birds of northern Afghanistan, east¬ 
ern Tibet, China, and Manchuria; and finally the jungle fowls (Galius) y 
whose home is in the extreme south of Asia and islands to the south- 
