The Badminton Magazine 1900-03: Vol 10 Iss 56 (1900)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 93
resemblance to the females of their own species. Thus, I knew of a golden pheasant pairing with a white Japanese bantam, which was an inmate, with several other birds, of the same aviary. Unfortunately the resulting eggs were never hatched, and so the opportunity of studying the offspring of this… … large heavy-looking bird, with feathered legs and feet, and a tail intermediate in length between that of the pheasant and fowl. | The other specimen, although the general colour is blue-black, is much more variegated, the feathers on the breast and back being edged with brown or buff, whilst the…
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