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PHEASANT (Mid. Eng. fesaunt and Salpingopharyngeal fold Glands in soft palate Anterior palatine arch Supratonsillar fossa Plica triangularis fesaun; Ger. fasan and anciently fasant; Fr. faisanall from the Lat. Phasianus or phasiana, sc. avis) , the bird brought from the banks of the river Phasis, now the Rioni, in Colchis, where it is still abundant, and introduced, according to legend, by the Argonauts into Europe. Judging from thedevelopment of the ventral part of the pharynx is dealt with in recognition of the remains of several species referred to the genus the articles TONGUE and RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. Phasianus both in Greece and in France,i it seems not impossible For literature see Quain's Elements of Anatomy, vol. i. (London, r9o8), and J. P. McMurrich, Development of the Human Body
ordinary pheasant, the P. colchicus of ornithclogists, (London, 1906). may have been indigenous to this quarter of the globe. If it was Comparative Anatomy.In the lower, water-breathing, verte- introduced into England, it must almost certainly have been brates the pharynx is the part in which respiration occurs. The brought by the Romans;' for, setting aside several earlier records water passes in through the mouth and out through the gill slits of doubtful authority,' Stubbs has shown that by the regulationswhere it comes in contact with the gills or branchiae. of King Harold in 1059 onus phasianus is prescribed as the The lowest subphylum of the phylum Chordata, to which the term Adelochorda is sometimes applied, contains a worm-like creature Balanoglossus, in which numerous rows of gill slits open from the pharynx, though Cephalodiscus, another member of the same subphylum, has only one pair of these. In the subphylum Urochorda, to which the Ascidians or sea-squirts belong, there are many rows of gill slits, as there are also in the Acrania, of which Amphioxus, the lancelet, is the type. In all these lower forms there are no true gills, as the blood-vessels lining the large number of slits provide a sufficient area for the exchange of gases. In the Cyclostomata a reduction of the number of gill slits takes place, and an increased area for respiration is provided by the gill pouches lined by pleated folds of entodermal mucous membrane; (From Ambrose
Sagittal Section through Mouth, Tongue, Larynx, Pharynx and Nasal Cavity. The section is slightly oblique, and the posterior edge of the nasal septum has been pre-served. The specimen is viewed slightly from below, hence in part the low position of the inferior turbinated bone. 1 These are P. archiaci from Pikermi, P. altus and P. medius from the lacustrine beds of Sansan, and P. desnoyersi from Touraine, see A. Milne Edwards, Ois. foss. de la France (ii. 229, 239-243). 2 Undoubted remains have been found in excavations at Silchester. s Among these perhaps that worthy of most attention is in Probert's translation of The Ancient Laws of Cambria (ed. 1823, pp. 367, 368), wherein extracts are given from Welsh triads, presumably of the age of Howel the Good, who died in 948. One of them is, " There are three barking hunts: a bear , a squirrel and a pheasant." The explanation is, " A pheasant is called a barking hunt, because when the pointers come upon it and chase it, it takes to a tree, where it is hunted by baiting." The present writer has not been able to trace the manuscript containing these remarkablealternative of two partridges or other birds among the " pitantiae" (rations or commons, as we might now say) of the canons of Waltham
Saxons
The practice of bringing up pheasants by hand is now extensively followed, and the numbers so reared vastly exceed those that are bred at large. The eggs are collected from birds that are either running wild or kept in pens, and are placed under domestic hens; but, though these prove most attentive foster-mothers, much additional care on the part of their keepers is needed to ensure the arrival at maturity of the poults; for, being necessarily crowded in a comparatively small space, they are subject to several diseases which often carry off a large proportion, to say nothing of the risk
district
shooting
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