Fog in the king, the discovery of Mikado pheasant
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Behind the NT $ 1,000, there have print two birds
What is that? I think your guess right !!
We all know that is, Mikado pheasant
What is that? I think your guess right !!
We all know that is, Mikado pheasant
the pair of the tail feathers
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This bird's discovery process, it can be said is quite legendary !!!
People hear about the story is ：at that time, this bird is unknown and never found ( male ), but was identified as a new species through a pair of its tail feathers. This is a rare case
This bird's discovery process, it can be said is quite legendary !!!
People hear about the story is ：at that time, this bird is unknown and never found ( male ), but was identified as a new species through a pair of its tail feathers. This is a rare case
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The stage of bird discovery in Taiwan can be broadly divided 3 period
1. European naturalist and other foreigners occasional adventure mentality period
2. Japanese naturalist to establish, and overall study of ornithological information period
3. Taiwanese researchers to make up for deficiencies
The stage of bird discovery in Taiwan can be broadly divided 3 period
1. European naturalist and other foreigners occasional adventure mentality period
2. Japanese naturalist to establish, and overall study of ornithological information period
3. Taiwanese researchers to make up for deficiencies
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In the first period, the scope of the survey of those scholars mostly focus in the north and south of the plain& hills, or along the river or coast records it.
No explorer into the central mountains (High-altitude mountains ) to do long-term collection work
In the first period, the scope of the survey of those scholars mostly focus in the north and south of the plain& hills, or along the river or coast records it.
No explorer into the central mountains (High-altitude mountains ) to do long-term collection work
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Until the early twentieth century, a British explorer
Go into the Yushan (Mt. Jade or Mt. Morrison) expedition and collection, the special of Taiwan's natural ecology was gradually highlighted
British bird collector Mr. Walter Goodfellow
A bird farmer Mrs. Johnston, hire he go to Taiwan to collect birds
Until the early twentieth century, a British explorer
Go into the Yushan (Mt. Jade or Mt. Morrison) expedition and collection, the special of Taiwan's natural ecology was gradually highlighted
British bird collector Mr. Walter Goodfellow
A bird farmer Mrs. Johnston, hire he go to Taiwan to collect birds
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Goodfellow came to Taiwan in June 1906
I think he is very smart and lucky, because that time, at the very end of the first period, Taiwan had just entered the period of Japanese occupation, and Japanese researchers had not yet begun working to collect bird data. So he got a chance can to find few new bird
Goodfellow came to Taiwan in June 1906
I think he is very smart and lucky, because that time, at the very end of the first period, Taiwan had just entered the period of Japanese occupation, and Japanese researchers had not yet begun working to collect bird data. So he got a chance can to find few new bird
Ibis 1908 , by Henrik Grönvold
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----- a short extract from W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and J. D. D. La Touche. 1907. On the Birds of the Island of Formosa. Volume 49,Issue 1 -------
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He writes:
I am not very satisfied with the Formosan collection. Formosa is the most difficult country to collect in that I have yet visited and the most uninteresting. No one can imagine the difficulties one has to put up with ...
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I evidently went to Formosa at the wrong time of the
year, but I am still in doubt as to which season would be
the best for the mountains .....
I evidently went to Formosa at the wrong time of the
year, but I am still in doubt as to which season would be
the best for the mountains .....
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January and February are quite out
of the question, for the weather is then extremely severe
and the snows come down very low. .....
January and February are quite out
of the question, for the weather is then extremely severe
and the snows come down very low. .....
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I could see that. certain trails and ravines I ascended would be quite impossible at that season, and even the savages informed me that it was then very difficult to get about.
I could see that. certain trails and ravines I ascended would be quite impossible at that season, and even the savages informed me that it was then very difficult to get about.
Mr.Goodfellow took this train to Daksui
During the Japanese colonial period
This train is often used to carry people and transport sugar cane
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I started from Tainan in the first week of January, and went about forty-five miles up the line by train to Daksui. From there I went a ten or twelve miles trolley-journey to Rinkiho (Chinese: Lim-ki-po). All the places have two names, Japanese and Chinese.
Mr.Goodfellow said the trolley-journey
This mode of transport refers to the man-powered light railroad, popular in the early 20th century Japan and its colonies (Taiwan, North Korea, etc.), to transport goods for the purpose. Because of its low operating costs, the construction speed,before the remote rural road traffic complete, it's the local main mode of transport.
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Thence I started on foot to the last Chinese village, Ghi-ou-rog, twenty-two miles distant. The next day’s journey took me eighteen miles into the mountains, to the first savage village of Nama-ka-bang, at an elevation of about 2500 feet. The fourth day I arrived at Tompo (a second savage village, belonging to a different tribe), not a long journey, but a very difficult one ; and the fifth day from Tompo to Racu Racu, the highest inhabited village, near to Mt. Morrison, was also st short but frightfully difficult journey. On the sixth day I made a very long and fatiguing journey from Racu Racu to a spot on Mt. Morrison at an elevation of 9000 ft.
In 1906, Mr. Goodfellow in Taiwan
The exploration route he collecting birds in Taiwan
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There we were practically on the range which is called Mt. Morrison
We rested here one day, and on the seventh day started, before daylight, for the summit, returning to camp the same night. Had we not ascended the mountain on that day we should not have been able to do so, for the next day winter-weather set in, with rain and snow, which came down lower and lower until we were snowed and frozen out of our camp. We stayed at this camp ten or twelve days.
There we were practically on the range which is called Mt. Morrison
We rested here one day, and on the seventh day started, before daylight, for the summit, returning to camp the same night. Had we not ascended the mountain on that day we should not have been able to do so, for the next day winter-weather set in, with rain and snow, which came down lower and lower until we were snowed and frozen out of our camp. We stayed at this camp ten or twelve days.
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So we struck our camp and went down to the highest village of Racu Racu at about 6000 ft. On our way there I met with a bad accident. A different tribe of savages to those who were with us had set a trap in our trail and, as I was leading, I got one spear right into my instep and another wound on the upper side of the foot.
So we struck our camp and went down to the highest village of Racu Racu at about 6000 ft. On our way there I met with a bad accident. A different tribe of savages to those who were with us had set a trap in our trail and, as I was leading, I got one spear right into my instep and another wound on the upper side of the foot.
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The consequence was I was laid up for nearly three weeks without being able to put my foot to the ground.
I had obtained at our highest camp, between 9000 and 10,000 ft. After apparently exhausting the avifauna of Racu Racu, I was determined, in spite of bad! weather, to go up higher once more, and we camped out in a ravine near the S.W. front of Mt. Morrison between 8000 and 9000 ft. We had a fine day for our ascent, but it rained all night, and during the eight days that I remained there I was only able to go out collecting once, for about three hours.
The consequence was I was laid up for nearly three weeks without being able to put my foot to the ground.
I had obtained at our highest camp, between 9000 and 10,000 ft. After apparently exhausting the avifauna of Racu Racu, I was determined, in spite of bad! weather, to go up higher once more, and we camped out in a ravine near the S.W. front of Mt. Morrison between 8000 and 9000 ft. We had a fine day for our ascent, but it rained all night, and during the eight days that I remained there I was only able to go out collecting once, for about three hours.
female Mikado Pheasant
look very similar with female Swinhoe's Pheasant
I think at that time Mr. Goodfellow he got the female
but he make wrong judgments
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When I shot the first Pheasant I really thought I had found a new
species, but of course it was Swinhoe’s. It was disappointing to find it so high up. You will see two feathers from the tail of another Pheasant, which is doubtless new (Culophasis mikudo Grant), It was only on the day we were leaving the mountains that I found these in the head-dress of a Ravage who had come to carry our baggage.
When I shot the first Pheasant I really thought I had found a new
species, but of course it was Swinhoe’s. It was disappointing to find it so high up. You will see two feathers from the tail of another Pheasant, which is doubtless new (Culophasis mikudo Grant), It was only on the day we were leaving the mountains that I found these in the head-dress of a Ravage who had come to carry our baggage.
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He said he had killed it on Mount Arizan and that it was rare. From enquiries I have made, I believe Arizan would be a much better
collecting-ground than Mt. Morrison.
He said he had killed it on Mount Arizan and that it was rare. From enquiries I have made, I believe Arizan would be a much better
collecting-ground than Mt. Morrison.
Did you see the pair of the tail feathers
Mr. Goodfellow, he found these in the head-dress of a native people(Tsou)
who had come to carry their baggage
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Though Mr. Goodfellow states that he is dissatisfied with
the collection that he made, he has really no reason to be so,
as will be seen by those who read the following pages. To
have discovered ten new species of birds is sufficiently
satisfactory, and when we consider how remarkable some of
these species are and the great difficulties with which he had
to contend, I think that our readers will congratulate him
very heartily on the successful results of his journey.
Though Mr. Goodfellow states that he is dissatisfied with
the collection that he made, he has really no reason to be so,
as will be seen by those who read the following pages. To
have discovered ten new species of birds is sufficiently
satisfactory, and when we consider how remarkable some of
these species are and the great difficulties with which he had
to contend, I think that our readers will congratulate him
very heartily on the successful results of his journey.
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-------------------------- My experience --------------------------
-------------------------- My experience --------------------------
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Usually named a new species to need male and female specimens
guess Mr. Grant is to preempt the timeliness of publication, relying on a pair of male birds tail feathers and the female pheasant, perhaps so much of the baseless assertion and the discovery of this species is relying on a pair of tail feathers ...
Usually named a new species to need male and female specimens
guess Mr. Grant is to preempt the timeliness of publication, relying on a pair of male birds tail feathers and the female pheasant, perhaps so much of the baseless assertion and the discovery of this species is relying on a pair of tail feathers ...
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However, in any case, Mikado pheasant, is undoubtedly the most world-renowned birds in Taiwan
However, in any case, Mikado pheasant, is undoubtedly the most world-renowned birds in Taiwan
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And the discovery history of birds in Taiwan is quite dramatic and fascinating
And the discovery history of birds in Taiwan is quite dramatic and fascinating
where is Taiwan
A pair of Mikado Pheasant
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