PHASIANIDIE, the pheasant family of birds, comprises the pea-fowl, pheasants, jungle-fowl, and spur-fowl, all of them peculiar to Asia, India, j Burma, and Malayan; some authors include also the turkeys. They frequent forests, jungles, and thick coverts, perch and roost on trees:— Pavoninte, l'avo cristatus, Linn., common peacock.
1'. Japonensia, Japan peacock.
P. inuticus, Linn., Burmese peacock.
Polyplectron Tibetanurn, Assam to Tenasserim. I'. hicalcaratam, Linn., Malacca, Sumatra.
P. Napoleonis, flume.
P. chalcurus, Tenzin.
Arsesanus gisanteus, Tenini., Malay Peninsula, Arch!. pelago.
Sub-1'am. Phnsianium, Pheasants.
Lophophorua Impeyanus,Latham, the monal,Ilimalaya. Crossoptilon auntum, Pallas, snow pheasant.
C. Tibetanum, Hodgson, snow pheasant.
Ceriornis satyra, Linn., Sikkim horned pheasant. C. melanocephala, Gray, Simla horned pheasant. C. Temminekii, Gray, China.
C. Caboti, Gould, China.
Ithaginis cruentus, Hardie., green blood pheasant, Bhutan, Sikkim.
Pucrasia macrolophia, Less., Purkas pheasant. P. castnnea, Gould, North-west Himalaya.
Phasianus Wallicliii, Hardie., Cheer pheasant. P. Colchicus.
P. torquatus, —? ring-necked pheasant of China, 1'. Mongolicus, Gould.
I'. versicolor, Vieillot, Japan.
P. Reevesii, Gray, China.
I'. Scemmerringii, Tenzin., Japan.
P. lineatus, Lath., silver pheasant of Burma. Thaumales. pieta, —1 China, Central Asia.
T. Amherstice, Leadbeater, North China, Manchuria. Gennteus nyethemerus, Gould, silver pheasant of Hima laya.
Gallophasis alboeristatus, Vigors, white-crested Kalij pheasant.
0. melanotus, Blyth, Sikkim, the Kalij pheasant. Horsfieldii, Gray, Assam, Tiperah, Chittagong. G. lineatus, —, Assam, Burma.
Sub-Fam. Gallinte, Jungle-fowl, Firebacks, Black Pheasant.
Diardigallus prelatus, Bonap., Siam.
Gallus ferruginous, Gintlin, red lungle-fowl.
G. Sonneratii, Tenon., grey jungle-fowl.
G. Stanleyi, Gray, Ceylon. G. fureatus, Temm., Java. G. renews, Temm., Batavia. Galloperdix spadieeus, amelin, red spur-fowl.
G. Innulosus, Valerie, painted spur-fowl.
G. Zeylonensis, —? Ceylon.
The genus Phasianus is higher up the Himalaya slopes than the Gallophasis, and the Gallus is still lower. Phasianus colchicus and the Chinese P. torquatus readily intermix and blend, wherever the latter has been introduced in Europe. Phas ianus colehicus, the common pheasant, was origin ally from Asia. Minor. P. torquatus came from Shanghai about the middle of the 18th century ; P. Mongolicus from Mongolia, P. Seemmerringii from Japan, P. Reevesii from China, and P. versicolor from Japan. See Pheasant.