. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 371 of metallic blue. The crest, centre-tail feathers, and upper back are pure white, while the white back is flanked on each side by a patch of metallic maroon, and the face and legs are bright red. The hen has similar vermilion facings, and is prettily pencilled with brown, black, and buff. Swin- hoe's Pheasant is con- stantly obtainable, but still rather BAR-TAILED PHEASANT Better known as Reeves' Pheasant, the Phasianus reevesi of Northern Pheasant China cannot nowadays be called a rare species here, as
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Zoo Notes 371 of metallic blue. The crest, centre-tail feathers, and upper back are pure white, while the white back is flanked on each side by a patch of metallic maroon, and the face and legs are bright red. The hen has similar vermilion facings, and is prettily pencilled with brown, black, and buff. Swin- hoe's Pheasant is con- stantly obtainable, but still rather BAR-TAILED PHEASANT Better known as Reeves' Pheasant, the Phasianus reevesi of Northern Pheasant China cannot nowadays be called a rare species here, as it is not unfrequently bred as a sporting bird, and occasionally appears in the poul- terers' shops. Here the enormous length of the cock's tail attracts attention, this appendage in a fine specimen reaching the extraordinary length of six feet. The plu- mage, as the photograph shows, is extremely handsome in its markings, and as the light ground-colour is mainly a bright orange- yellow, the effect is remarkable. The hen has a tail of only moderate length and very beautiful, though plain, plumage, the markings being very intricate. Although this species belongs to the same group as the common pheasant, the re- lationship is not very close, and the hybrids are usually infertile. Far otherwise is it with the Eing-necked RPhge;nsankted feasant, which, turned loose in our woods considerably more than a century ago, has now Photos by , , i i i ? j Dando, become so thoroughly inter- mixed with the old " dark - necked " breed (P. colchicus) that a pure specimen of either is hardly to be found. For the benefit of those who may desire such informa- tion, it may be pointed out that the true ring- neck, in addition to his white collar and eye- brows, should have, as above stated, the flat of the wing and the lower back French-grey (the latter with a gloss of green), and be much lighter on the flanks than on the breast. The true old English pheasant (P. colchicus), on
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