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IMPEYAN PHEASANT.— iopAoyAonts Impcydmis. 



skin round the eyes falls in wattles below the throat. In the male the wattles are 

 purplish red, and in the female they are red without any mixture of blue, and are 

 of smaller size. The legs are without spurs. The pretty spotted plumage of this bird is 

 too well known to need description. Another species of the same genus, the Crested 

 Guinea Fowl, is remarkable for a large crest of arched feathers upon its head, taking the 

 place of the casque of the common species. The colour of the Crested Guinea Fowl 

 is blue-black, each feather having from four to six greyish spots. The primary feathers 

 of the wings are oaken brown, and the edges of the secondaries snowy white, forming a 

 bold contrast with the extremely dark plumage of the body. 



Although less in size than the peacock, and without the wonderful train of that bird, 

 the Impeyan Pheas.,\nt or Moxal is nearly as splendid a cx'eature, and but for the absence 

 of the train, would even surpass it in the glory of its hues. 



On looking at a living or well-stuffed male Monal it stronglj'' reminds the observer of 

 the humming-birds, and looks as if one of those glittering little beings had been suddenly 

 magnified to a thousand times its size. Tlie plumage of the Impeyan Pheasant has the 



