YC 20319 ;-NRLF 33 flMfi 'i = ] .:: CHINA OR DENNY PHEASANT IN OREGON , LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Class THE CHINA OR DENNY PHEASANT IN OREGON The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon Tthwest 1IH J •1IINA OR DENNY PHEASANT (male), one-fifth natural size (Phasianus torquatus} The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon WITH NOTES ON THE Native Grouse of the Pacific Northwest WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM T. SHAW, B.AGR., M.S. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM, STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON PHILADELPHIA b5 LONDON ]. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1908 COPYRIGHT 1906, BY W. T. SHAW COPYRIGHT 1908, BY VV. T. SHAW , rrr* ' - * ••"""• L~ Published March, 1908 Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A. TO M. ,1. S-S. Acknowledgments IN THE preparation of the manuscript for this work the writer is indebted to Mrs. O. N. Denny and Mrs. B. O. Scott for many facts relating to the importation of these pheasants. In making the illustrations much valuable assistance was rendered by Mr. B. L. Cunningham. The tinting of the frontispiece was done by Mr. Katso Morita, Japanese artist. Many of the specimens from which the illustrations were made were furnished by Messrs. 'Gene M. Simpson, A. R. Woodcock, H. L. French, F. L. Smith, and Rev. E. F. Green, to whom the writer is grateful. The writer is also indebted to the works of Dr. Robert Ridgway and Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey, for information relating to the geographical distribution of the native birds treated in the text. The illustrations are entirely original, those of the birds being made from specimens mounted and photographed by the writer. W. T. S. State College of Washington, Pullman, February 10, 1908. 216999 List of Plates 1 CHINA OR DENNY PHEASANT (Male) ........ Frontispiece 2 PETERSON'S BUTTE .....-.'... 25 3 CHINA OR DENNY PHEASANT (Female) ........ 27 4 NEST OF CHINA PHEASANT ......... 29 5 DESERTED NEST ........ 31 6 CHINA PHEASANT CHICKS QQ • • • • • • »• > 7 THE BEAUTIFUL WILLAMETTE ......... 35 8 SOOTY GROUSE . . o7 • • • • «J I 9 HYBRID: CHINA PHEASANT — SOOTY GROUSE qq • • • t/t/ 10 WILLOW PTARMIGAN (Alaskan) ......... 41 11 SAGE GROUSE ....... i ...... 43 12 COLUMBIA SHARP-TAILED GROUSE . AK • » • ^K+ THE (Hi VNT IN OREGON >o persistently shown .md forth behind their prison We an- doubly impi- ' -I joining runs containing golden and silver phf. M peHWt HHI? Thiv ! Thina pheasant into Oregon. t history tjArke* to cause national comment (female), one-fourth natural size flO AKIHD • NEST OF CHINA PHEASANT TVIA8A3H4 L/AW) HO • •Fti . •" CHINA PHEASANT CHICKS Note IIOTV well they harmonize with the surrounding untss-bltides and leaves £ protected by their own markings " . , 3-AOIH3 THA8A3Hq l-'/All') a§niiiiBm nwo iradJ vd LoJo-jloio t(ni«ff pn.lt *^Jl!U\ k— ,..i.... ., II^W //of{ THE BEAUTIFUL WILLAMETTE ^ Whose partially wooded bottom lands are a natural home for the pheasants. Mountains of the Coast Range in the distance adJ 0i 3TT3MAJJ1W JeaoD sdJ lo sniaJnuoM JAM tfHT 10! ^tuori hnnJan B ebnul raoWod b<>boow •* *mi '.*-: GROUSE (male) (Dendragajmt obscurus fuliginosus) One-third natural size. A native grouse of the timber country, inhabiting the coast mountains from Alaska to California **-**&' m* m oJ moil BniaJouom J&BOO 9iii gniJidadni « (aiBra) aaiJOHO YTOO8 ao ladmiJ stfi lo a^uoig avilan A .asig 33UOHO YTO08 — THASA3H1 AMIH3 r i has riaiggula Jud .amoebnad bn« ,§noi}e (9§i«kl .asia laiuisa Two-fifths natural size. WILLOW PTARMIGAN (Lagopus lagopus) This species is found in Alaska. A near relative, the white-tailed ptarmigan, ranges into Oregon, inhabiting the snow peaks of the Cascades as far south as Mt. Jefferson /LADIMflAT*! WOJJIV/ otui Bsgiun .nBginneJq b<>Ii£i-9,tidw adi ,9viJ4sl9-i lean A .sdeslA til bnool ai g^ioaqg aidT .ssia IsiuJfiii noeieftel .JM ae rltuog IB! KB aabfioafiD adJ lo ailfiaq woaa sdt gaitidadai SAGE GROUSE (Centrocercus urophasianus) (male) One-fourth natural size. This " sage hen " is found upon the great sage plains of the (alem) (%w«oi%iM\<\(ms nvmajwnA^vyi aeJ'JOHi) 3- adJ io aublq agsa teaig sdt noqu bnuol --.i " uad ->^K8;> *iriT .^sia fait/tea COLUMBIA SHARP-TAILED GKOUSE (female) (Pediacete* phasiancllus columlnanus) One-third natural size. The Columbia sharp-tailed grouse is the "prairie chicken" ranging west of Montana, from central Alaska to California OREGON RUFFED GROUSE (Bonasa umbellus sabini) One-third natural size. This is the " drummer." raiding from British Columbia to California in the Coast Ranges (i- ".utoft <.O -jJt rri One- MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE (Oreortyx pictus) sizo. The "quail" found in the humid coast regions from California to Washington rt-wmO) 3O