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the young are much more difficult to rear : there 

 is also a great disparity in the eggs of the two 

 species, those of the present one being blue or 

 bluish green, marked with small spots of a deeper 

 tint ; whereas those of the common Pheasant are 

 whitish olive, without spots. They are said to be 

 common at St. Helena, having been introduced 

 there by the governor, and a heavy penalty is 

 attached to any person that shoots one. 



b. Caput cristA instruction. 

 Head furnished with a crest. 



PAINTED PHEASANT. 



(Phasianus pictus.) 



PH. cristA flavti, occipilis pennisjuscis lineis nigris variis ; cor- 



pore supra Jlavo-aureo, subtus coccineo ; remigibus secundariis 



caruleis, cauda cuneaia. 

 Pheasant with a yellow crest ; the feathers of the occiput brown, 



varied with black lines; the body above golden-yellow, 



beneath scarlet ; the secondary quills blue j the tail Wedged. 

 Phasianus pictus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 272. 5. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 743. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 630. 5. Temm. Gall. Ind. 671. 

 Phasianus aureus Sinensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 271. 4. 

 Faisan dorc, ou tricolor de la Chine. Buff. Ois. 2. 355. Temm. 



Pig. et Gall. 2. 341. -Buff. PI. Enl. 217- 

 Painted Pheasant. Edv>. Birds, pi. 68. GQ.Albin. Birds. 3. pi. 



36* Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi. 22. Lat/u Gen. Syn. 4. 7J/. 5. 



