. A practical handbook of British birds . g-coverts buff, inner median and greater and innermost secondariesedged rufous-purple and with black centres lined pale buff (somecoverts with slight glossy greenish tinge subterminally), upperlesser coverts with buff-lined black centre not concealed by narrowbuff tips. Ph. c. torquatus.—Head like Ph. c. colchicus but with somewhat ill-defined white eye-stripe and white ring round base of neck, incom-plete in front and not always complete at back ; margins of feathersof upper-mantle bufnsh-yellow ; lower part of mantle with centralpart of feathers more
. A practical handbook of British birds . g-coverts buff, inner median and greater and innermost secondariesedged rufous-purple and with black centres lined pale buff (somecoverts with slight glossy greenish tinge subterminally), upperlesser coverts with buff-lined black centre not concealed by narrowbuff tips. Ph. c. torquatus.—Head like Ph. c. colchicus but with somewhat ill-defined white eye-stripe and white ring round base of neck, incom-plete in front and not always complete at back ; margins of feathersof upper-mantle bufnsh-yellow ; lower part of mantle with centralpart of feathers more contrasted whitish-buff and black than in Ph. ; feathers of back and rump with long tips of greyish-greenwith subterminal bright glossy-green bands, sides of back greyerand bluer, tips of upper tail-coverts buffish-green and patches atsides of rump rusty-orange ; concealed upper tail-coverts closelybarred black ; feathers of breast more narrowly edged purple -black and tips more bifurcate than in colchicus; sides and flanks. Feather from rump of adultmale British Pheasant. THE PHEASANT. 871 yellow-buff wth spot-like purple tips; tail: ground colour ofcentral part of feathers paler and more olive and black barsbroader than in colchicus and on both webs of all feathers exceptoutermost where they are mostly obsolete, bars extended toedges of feathers as dark rufous-purple ; wing-coverts less buff-and more pale slate-grey (sometimes bluish) than in —British Pheasants are a mixture of the two races and,though usually more like the old English Pheasant (Ph. ) than the Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant (Ph. c. torquahis),now usually show some white ring round neck but often this isincomplete and sometimes merely indicated by some white tips ;rump and upper tail-coverts usually a mixture of the two forms ;wing-coverts often with some blue-slate ; upper-mantle and flanksusually dark and more like Ph. c. colchicus. There is one completemoult in late s
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