PHEASANT RAISING IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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Fig. 8.—Crimson tragopan (Tragopan satyra). (From photograph of specimen in the U. S. National 
Museum mounted by Nelson R. Wood.) 
pheasant has been liberated in various game covers in America and 
Europe, but with indifferent success. 
The silver pheasant (Gennseus nycthemerus) is often seen in parks 
and aviaries, but the numerous other members of the genus, usually 
called kaleeges (or kalijes), are not often imported into this country. 
The home of the genus is the Indo-Chinese countries and the lower 
ranges of the Himalayas. 
The eared pheasants (Crossoptilon ), large, dull-colored birds of the 
higher ranges of central and eastern Asia, are known in American 
aviaries mainly through the Manchurian pheasant (fig. 7), the most 
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has been placed in game coverts in Europe and, to a very limited 
extent, in the United States, and may still be found on certain Scotch 
estates, where it ranks very high as a game bird. It normally 
inhabits east central Asia. 
Two of the best known and most commonly imported pheasants 
are the golden and Lady Amherst (fig. 6), both of the genus Chrysolo- 
phus, originally from the mountains of eastern Tibet and western and 
southern China. Both are favorite aviary birds, and the golden 
