Common pheasant (ring-necked), Phasianus colchicus torquatus (Phasianus torquatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardine’s the Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds in his Naturalist’s Library: Ornithology, Lizars, Edinburgh, 1834.

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