It is interesting to note the lack of association of green 
pheasants with agricultural crops; this also applies to the ring- 
necked pheasant in certain prime population areas of Hawaii. In that 
State the green pheasant does well where grasses, legumes, and other 
herbs are common and where soils are fairly fertile and neutral or 
slightly acid. 
Climatic Comparisons 
A wealth of meteorological data has been compiled representative 
of the ranges of the green pheasants of Japan. Figure 14, after 
Nuttonson (13), depicts a map of Japan illustrating thermal and lati-~ 
tidinal analogues of this country to areas in North America. As 
green pheasant are not native to the northern Japanese island of 
Hokkaido we are concerned only with their ranges from Honshu south to 
Kyushu. This map also takes into consideration the North American 
regions most closely resembling the high annual precipitation and high 
humidity areas characteristic of Japan. 
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Figure 13. Habitat of the green pheasant on the 
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