a t tile time it ought to break out. A * however, it is not always possible to allow space for a sufficient number o f nests. m p e I
ground, the best plan is to place in the bottom o f the box which is to hold the nest a thick fresh green turf, , which will supply to
the eggs during' incubation the moisture which is necessary. , - '
“ At first the chicks require rather soft food, but not very moist. One of the best things to give them is hard boiled egg, grated
fine and mixed with good sweet“ i f i a little braised hemp seed and M j chopped green food, s n c h f * littuce, cabbage, g j g j
c r e s s ,® m u s ta rd ’ i d cress. Meal, mixed with bodgd i S nntil it is like a tongh dough, sufficiently *?.*»• cf " « b,e easily, together
with a small quantity of millet ® |h ||i iu r y „ s ||L is also excellent for them A baked custard pudding, made of wcll-beateu eggs and
milk, is likewise of g r c a t f™ re lto .ji.e young; and if the i ^ ^ « # e t and l l l l l t f l pepper a n d s ti« c g n f dry meal to render
it stiff enough to 'ciiiidtbie should b c i a S & ibefOre baking. Ants' eggs, mea'-wonas, and grasshoppers arc also very usefiil.
of these are easily obtained W * d r y state, in WKfflfcpndMon S f l B fli be kept many months, and ■ invaluable. Care I H H
taken that fresh and finely chopped green food should be given daily. Many p É f e ^ » in the habit of giving
birds : there is great danger in these; mud I merely mention themvw i ^ u t reegmmending t h e i rU u p p |fw ^ ^ p |f |e person who gives
them will take the trouble to keep them tor some time in moist .sand. b rjdainp S ^ p ju n t i l they b a p | become thoroughly cleansed,
they are apt to canse purging. Many valuable birds have' hefeifilost I M incautious n jgjof gentles. fre||l]y .token, from the carcass
of some dead a n i f f i jfS u t if well cleaned by keeping, ten or twelve days after being removed f r o m » flesh, a few, v ^ | lew, may
be given, in case H better kind of insect food is a t hand. The tieatment of the young as change of food • ” lllBt
greatly depend ¡upon’ the judgment and skill of the p f B gw h o fiaP'eharge of 1 1 M u c | " l 'J r J ih'!^ S j r : K t' 'e
state of the atmosphere, the temperature, the d ty n e s s |g ;s e tú e s s of n i J 1 ' ' Q X L U j ■ U " ' " *
considerations which must' serve, til guide
I have now brought:’’the work to its completion/including in it every .snecie^ B ^ m p ú ñ a to tlm famildwhieh exhibited claims
sufflcient B B S I although ■ knowledge of these birds ¡ f e been much increased ímhíjíhls:
Monograph was commenced (aild..it: h: . * u n c w h a £ ; ^ f f l t h e l i i ^ e l i h a d originally proposed), vet 1 cannot believe that
all the species entitled to a place within its pages have »yet been discovered ^T o r probably amid t h e g s t tracts of Central Asia
there remain other forms ó fe l^ li^b laú tffu l creatures stdl unlrnovm I can only hope that we may: become acquainted
with them in ■ m f € | y a n d I shall aluays tS a i with u n | S S h r j s t and j g S p i h a s ú r é of gjgj in tr o d u c t io n ^ .J h |g 5 « ti f ic world
<jf a new species belonging to the P iiasianid/e.
Since E Introduction has passed tb jp g h th e ’p iéis, two new species gdSnging to this Famil; j™ V SC" B ’ ''n<1’ ftl tu,I',ltly
I have been able to include them in the body o f the work.
The first, procured by Mr. Swinhoe from the range of m |u |ta in s near Ningpo, makes the fourth member of the genus lucrasia now
known. Although closely allied to previously described forms, it differs sufficiently from them to be easily recognizable, and is a valuable
addition to the family. I t will be known as .
„ . n . . . . . . Plate XXIX bis. Volume I.
Pucrasia Uarmm . . • • . ■ • • •
The next i s y ¿ wonderful and beautiful o b ta in e d ! ! Mr S w iu h c S g u -fc t mountains behind Ningpo in | | | j « g l
province o f Che-Kiang, and which I have made the type of the genus Calophasis,
Guhplmh S U M . ■ Plate XIII bis- Volume II.
It is not often that it fells to the lot o f any naturalist to be able to make known to the scientific world so interesting and lovely a
bird;; and Mr. B M rest satisfied with h i E * i i b u f | ® the Phasiamdie when upon the present pec.es, as wgM
as the remarkable Euplmipnus from Formosa which bears bis name, mid the form that precedes this in the present list, all .of which, were
brought to light through the unwearied industry of this zealous naturalist.
I am not now aware of having.omitted any species of the Phasianidie known to science—and bring the ^Qijk to a ld o se , feeling that
every effort has been made to render it as complete as possible, although doubtless, in the iiiterior of the Asiatic continent, other
beautiful and interesting species which can rightly claim a place in this family are, for the present, hid from g eyes.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENERA OF THE PHASIANIDiE.
It is here perceived that the Indian Region Cantabs the greatest number of .genera, no less than ten being represented within
its b l t o i e s ! possessing forty-nine specie^; H H to it i ^ b e Pataa rctie Region, which has eight genera, w„h thirty-three
species I Of these genera I l y five arc common to both divisions, W B S E B M and
Ptmiams in the Indian H H is MMjHH by the P fo rm M im of the Island .o fjo rm o s a , which, perhaps, would more
^ " c o n s i d e r e d H H H part of the P a lre a rc c Region, for in the Ind.au Region
sentative H t o S K f a t a S t o w » t a p p r o a c f lo it being form known M U M 0 n H
-other hand one genus (containing, with one exception a large: number of species than any other ni tins family), Eu p h cm u ,
K r e l v 'a b i e n t ’S ; t f e < Patearctic fauna T h e -M e™ peculiar to this last division .are Crmopldon Tetraopham ^ i Thawnal«.;
while to the Indian arc restricted Pmo, Argm, PolyplKtrm, Euptoaww,, and 6aUm These two divisions may therefore be CO -
sidereil n«r the true region of the P h i * where the family had: its origin, and A c r e the physical effects eharac enstic
of the country have contributed to the greatest development of its spec.es The Australian Region contains no genusi peculiar to
itself,' being only represented in th e family by a pe c e o f ® posse ing i t , true subgenenc value but wh.ch has protably
onlv arrived a t such distinction, through the effects o i insular life, as it is rcstricicd to the islands winch a t one time doubtles
1 — o f the Asiatic continent On the other hand, the Ethiopian, Neurotic, and Neotropical Regions contain genera not
met with ill the other divisions, the firs, having some as distinct from the single, one represented in
they are from the three other ornithological 'divisions of the earth, though some writers have contended that one Ethiopian
genus, A W « , has a nearer ally in Meleafn of the New World than in any genus found in the Old-World divisions. This
however, ,s erroneous, as A M » M H | of life .Indian region (a near-lying dmsion) are probably nearer to each other
structure than they are to any other, with one ex c ep tio n -th at being the relationship of Pam to Lophopharm.