. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . erely varieties. The Europeanpheasants, descended from the stocks which came in early timesfrom Western Asia, are called by various names — CommonPheasant, Darknecked Pheasant, English Pheasant, and Hun-garian Pheasant. Two kinds of pheasants, of the same type buthaving more distinctive color markings, have in recent timesbeen brought from Eastern Asia. One of these is commonly PHEASANTS 215 called the Ringneck Pheasant, but the names China Pheasant/Mongolian Pheasant/ and others are also applied to it. Thesecond variety, also called Mon
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . erely varieties. The Europeanpheasants, descended from the stocks which came in early timesfrom Western Asia, are called by various names — CommonPheasant, Darknecked Pheasant, English Pheasant, and Hun-garian Pheasant. Two kinds of pheasants, of the same type buthaving more distinctive color markings, have in recent timesbeen brought from Eastern Asia. One of these is commonly PHEASANTS 215 called the Ringneck Pheasant, but the names China Pheasant/Mongolian Pheasant/ and others are also applied to it. Thesecond variety, also called Mongolian Pheasant, is said by someauthorities to be the only one to which the name Mongolian properly applies. It is not quite like the Ringneck, but, likeit, has a white ring around the neck. From Japan still anotherbird, called the Versicolor Pheasant, or Japanese VersicolorPheasant, very similar in type, was brought to England. Thesethree varieties from Eastern Asia have been mixed with theEuropean pheasants to such an extent that there are now very. Fig. 171. Manchurian Pheasant few pheasants of the type common in Europe before their in-troduction, and good specimens of the oriental races are equallvrare. The principal English variety at the present time is aRingneck produced from the mixture. This is called the Eng-lish Pheasant; in England it is also sometimes called the Com-mon Pheasant. The birds that breed at liberty in the UnitedStates are mostly of the Ringneck tvpe. Although they are very beautiful birds, the pheasants thus farmentioned appear plain in comparison with the Silver and theGolden Pheasants (which are the most common of the highlyornamental varieties) and the Reeves and Amherst Pheasants. 2l6 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS These are the kinds most often seen in aviaries and at poultryshows. There are many other rare and curious varieties whichare to be seen only in the finest collections. Among these isa class called the Eared Pheasants, because of the little tufts
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