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B. CAPITE cristate, genes nudce, tarsi longiores. 

 B. With the head crested ; the cheeks naked ; tarsi lengthened. 



MACARTNIAN COCK. 

 (Gallus Macartnyi.) 



CJA. niger, chalybeo-nitens, dorso igneo-firrvgineo ; plumis late- 

 ribus corporis rufis cum ignito reflexu ; rectricibus intermediis 

 subfulvis. (Femina saturate rufa, supra lineis transversis 

 atriSj plumis albo-marginatis ; guld alb A. ) 



Black Cock, glossed with steel-colour ; the upper part of the 

 back of a fiery rust-colour j the feathers on the sides of the 

 body rufous, with igneous reflections ; the middle tail-feathers 

 slightly fulvous. (Female deep rufous, with transverse dark- 

 coloured lines ; the feathers margined with white ; throat 

 white.) ./- 



Gallus Macartnyi. Temm. Gall. Ind. 663. 



Phasianus ignitus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. bu. Shaw. Nat. 

 Misc. 9. 



Houppifere Macartney. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 2. 273. pi. S.f.lO. 



Fire-backed Pheasant. Staunt. Emb. Chin. 1. 246. pi. 13. 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. II. 274. Shava. Nat. Misc. 9. pi. 321. 



Var. @. cauda pennis albis. 



The tail with white feathers. 



Gallus Macartnyi 0. Temm. Gall. Ind. 664. 



THIS highly splendid and magnificent bird is 

 distinguished from the other Cocks by not pos- 

 sessing the comb, but having a delicate plume of 

 feathers on the crown of the head, somewhat 

 similar to that of the Peacock : the cheeks are 

 naked, and the fleshy wattles are of a different 

 construction to those of the Cock. The male is 

 about two feet in length : his head is adorned 



