Identifier: birdnotes05fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^ distinct from theothers, having a uniform metallic green breast andunder surface. This bird has been introduced intoBritain and has interbred with the others alreadyacclimatised.
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6i The splendid Soemnien-iugs Pheasants (/*. soem-vierringi) from the Japanese Islands of Hondo andKill-sin, one of the elaborately beautiful forms, isrepresented by a pair of birds. The strikingly coloured Reevess Pheasant (P.reevesii), the male of which sometimes grows a tailabout 5 feet long, conies from China, and is the largestof the true Pheasants, the male reaching a total of■6ft. 6in. in length. The Golden Pheasant (^Thaicmalea picta) of whichthe Zoological Society possess several examples, andthe Amherst Pheasant (7. ainherstics) are well knownbirds, the palm for beauty being generally given tothe male of the latter species, as to most peoplestastes the Golden Pheasant is too gaudy a bird. TheGolden Pheasant is from Western and Southern China,and the Amherst Pheasant from Western China andKastern Tibet, both species being birds of themountains. The Peacock Pheasant (^Polyplectro7i chinqicis)which belongs to a different group, has its home inIndo-China, and is at a distance

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