A hand-book to the game-birds (1895) (14775427163)

Identifier: handbooktogamebi02ogil (find matches)
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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worth sending. Alas, the lastday I was in the Eastern Hills, about the middle of the night,the huts in which my servants were, and in which was also mypoor Pheasant, suddenly caught fire. . . . According to the accounts of my savages, these birds livein dense hill forests at elevations of from 2,500 feet to fully5,000 feet. They prefer the neighbourhood of streams, andare neither rare nor shy. They extend right through the Kam-how territory into Eastern Lushai and North-west IndependentBurmah. Nest and Eggs.—Unknown. THE GOLDEN PHEASANTS. GENUS CHRYSOLOPHUS.Thaumaka, Wagler (nee Ruthe, Diptera, 1831), Isis, 1832, p. 1227.Chryso/op/ms, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 41, fig. 2 (1833-4).Type, C. pietus (L\nn.). Tail long and vaulted, composed of eighteen feathers, themiddle pair being very long, more than four times as long asthe short outermost pair. First primary flight-feather much shorter than the second,which is somewhat shorter than the tenth • fifth slightly thelongest,
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TIIK GOLDEN PHEASANTS- 45 Male with a full long crest of hairy feathers, and a cape-likedevelopment of erectile feathers. Tarsi armed with a pair ofshort spurs. Only two species are known.^ I. THE GOLDEN PHEASANT. CHRYSOLOPHUS PICTUS. Plasiafiuspiciiis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 272 (1766); Hayes, Ostcrl. Menag. p. 5, pis. 5 and 6 (1794).2haiiniakapkta,\\^.^QX^\?>\s, 1832, p. 1228; Gould, B.Asia, vii. pi. 19 (1866); Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. xv. (1872).Chrysolophus pictus, J. E. Oray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 41, fig. 2 (1834); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 339 (1893). (Plate XXIV.) Adult Male.—Top of the head, crest, and rump brilliant golden-yelloiv; square-tipped cape-like feathers covering the back of theneck brilliant o?ange, tipped and banded with black glossedwith steel-blue; throat and sides of the head pale rust-colour;shoulder-feathers and rest of under-parts crimson-scarlet, andmiddle pair of tail-feathers black, with roujided spots of palebrown. Total lengt