Pheasants; their natural history and practical management . s first describedand exhibited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild at themeeting of the British Ornithologists Olub on November 20,1901. Mr. Rothschilds description was as follows :— This species is somewhat allied to P. torquatus,Gm., but differs in the following points:—The scapulars arepaler rufous buff, instead of dark bright chocolate-rufous ormaroon-chocolate, as in P. torquatus. The flanks and breastare much paler, as are also the feathers of the hindneck andmantle. The crown is clear chromium-green, instead of oUve-green ; the super
Pheasants; their natural history and practical management . s first describedand exhibited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild at themeeting of the British Ornithologists Olub on November 20,1901. Mr. Rothschilds description was as follows :— This species is somewhat allied to P. torquatus,Gm., but differs in the following points:—The scapulars arepaler rufous buff, instead of dark bright chocolate-rufous ormaroon-chocolate, as in P. torquatus. The flanks and breastare much paler, as are also the feathers of the hindneck andmantle. The crown is clear chromium-green, instead of oUve-green ; the superciliary stripe is twice as broad and snow-white, instead of greenish buffy white. The most strikingdifference, however, is in the feathers of the upper rump andlower back. In P. torquatus these have a sub-terminal, oval,transverse, and narrow bar of green, then one of buffy grey,then a more or less interrupted one of black, and, lastly, ablack, longitudinal centre, with the pale space on each sidevermiculated with black. In P. hagenbecM these feathers. t mmM
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