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Title: A hand-book to the game-birds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924
Subjects: Game and game-birds Upland game birds
Publisher: London : W.H. Allen & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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7);Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 331 (1893). Phasianus albotorquatus, Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 184 (1791)- (Plate XXn.) Adult Male.—The colour of the lower back, &c., mentionedabove, serves to distinguish this species at a glance from all thosealready described. The ground-colour of the mantle and flank-feathers is bright ora?tge-buff instead of primrose, as in P. for-mosanus (but it must be added that in some birds from Coreaand China this difference is scarcely apparent); the chest-andbreast-feathers have only the fiarrowest purple margins, andthe whole breast is glossed with purplish-lake, as in P.persicus.From the red-rumped species this and the following birds arefurther distinguished by having the black bars on the basalpart of the tail-feathers much wider. Total length, 35 inches ;wing, 92 ; tail, 20*2 ; tarsus, 27. Adult Female.—Closely resembles the female of P. colchicus.Total length, 24*5 inches; wing, 8-2 ; tail, 10-5; tarsus, 2*4. PLATE XXII.
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RING - NE C KED PHEASANT. IIIE IRUE PHEASANTS. 2^ Range.—Extending from the lower Amoor, Mantchuria,Corea, Tsu-sima (Japan), and Eastern Mongolia, throughNorthern and Eastern China as far south as Canton. Althoughthis species appears to have been found wild by )\f r. Hoist onthe island of Tsu-sima, which is between the Corean coast andKiusiu, the southern island of Japan, it seems to us probableI hat it has been introduced there. On the island of St. Helena, where it was of course in-troduced, it has lon» been wild, and numbers arc killedannually. Habits.—The best account of the habits of the Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant is given by Prjevalsky, who writes as follows :— We met with the Pheasant north of Gu-bey-key, in Muni-ul,and along the northern bend of the Hoang-ho River. Inthe former locality they inhabit the wooded districts, usuallyin the vicinity of brooks, and do not ascend any mountainsbeyond 6,500 feet above the level of the sea. In the Hoang-ho Valley they keep in th

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