velvet-like margin ; the legs and feet retaining their smaller
and more slender female character, and are-without spurs.
White and Pied varieties of the Pheasant are not uncommon
; and this account of our Pheasant having extended to
an unusual length, the Ring-necked and Bohemian Pheasants
will, for brevity’s sake, be considered also, as" only varieties.
The first may be known, when old'enough, by the white
feathers which form part of a circle < on the sides and back of
the neck; I have never, in the oldest specimens, seen- the
ring continued round the front; the saddle hackle feathers
have peacock-green and copper reflections; the tail-feathers
have broader dark bars, and the spaces’ between the bars
speckled with Mack.
The two or three examples'whick. I have seen of what are
called the Bohemian Pheasant, Shot in this country, have
appeared to be accidental varieties, very pale in colour on the
neck, and approaching to buffy white on the-chest, back, and
wing, apparently from weakness and consequent- defective
secretions.
RASORES. TETRAONID1E.
T H E CAPERCAILLIE.
WOOD GROUSlt, OR COCK OF 'THE WOOD.
TMrao tyrpgalhis, Woofl farou^, P enn. Brit. Zo6l, vol,. i. p. 347. ...
(J ,, Montv 0 ‘rnith. t)ict.
,, B ewick, Brit. Birds, vol'. i. p. 345*
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