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THE ARGUS PHEASANT. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cheeks covered with a fniooth naked fkin. 



Lilt, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Yellowifh-brown Pheafant, fpotted with black ; the wing-feathers marked 



by oval ocellated fpots, 

 Argu5 Pheafant. Lath. Synopf. a. p. 710. 



L'Argus ou le Luen. Buff. Oif. 2. p. 361. 



Phil. TranJ. vol. 55. pL 3. p. 88. 



THIS bird affords a remarkable inftance of the wonderful effc<5l of cer- 

 tain colours in themfelves of no peculiar brilliancy, yet in combination 

 producing an appearance of the moft beautiful kind. Without any of that 

 fplendid gaiety which fhines in the plumage of the Golden Pheafant of China, 

 or that rich profufion of glowing tints which adorn the male of the common 

 Afiatic fpecies, it is yet diftinguiihed by an afpedl fo fuperior as to be 

 juftly regarded as the moft magnificent of its tribe. 



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