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dark-brown, here and _. there 
tinged with russet and marked 
with white spots or lines, while 
there are touches of black about 
the head and crest. 
This bird, like its wonderful 
relation the Argus Pheasant, is 
much given to dancing and 
parading before the females in 
the breeding season, and for this 
purpose clears with its feet a 
circular space of ground under 
the trees. Around this it races 
at full speed, stopping every 
now and then to lower its wings 
and elevate its wonderful tail. 
The Argus Pheasant is equally 
remarkable in its way and is 
more beautifully marked with 
bolder ocelli or “eyes” than 
Rheinhardt’s Pheasant. In fact, 
it derives its name from the 
Greek myth of Argus with the 
hundred eyes. These wonderful 
markings, as in the case of all 
Pheasants, are confined to the 
male bird. In size the adult 
male of the Argus Pheasant is 
about six feet long. It is not 
the tail which is the chief feature 
in this bird, but the enormous de- 
velopment of the secondary quills 
of the wing, though the two 
middle tail feathers are very 
long. 
Closely allied to the Argus 
Pheasants and  Rheinhardt’s 
Pheasant, though not nearly so 
large, are: the Peacock Pheasants, 
with two or three spurs on each 
leg. Of these, two are illustrated 
in this article, one of them—the 
largest of the group—being the 
Chinquis Peacock Pheasant, and 
the other, almost the smallest, 
Nehrkorn’s Peacock Pheasant. 
[From a specimen in the Royal Collection at Stuttgart 
The Chinquis is a bird which has 
RHEINHARDT'S PHEASANT. 
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This rare and truly remarkable bird, with a tail nearly seven feet long in some frequent y be a h 2 f 
examples, inhabits the dense forests of Tonquin and Annam. Zoological Gardens and 1S fairly 
