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The f^eneral or o-roiind colour of this bird is a foft palifli brown ver>' 

 thickly fprinkled v/ith minute whitifh rounded fpecks ; while the wings and 

 the tail are moft richly adorned with a vaft number of round, or rather 

 nichtly oval convex fpots of a beautiful amethyft colour, which on the middle 

 or central part of each is exalted into a brighter blue. This gemmeous 

 afpeft is one of the moil curious phenomena that can be found amongft 

 birds: the convex appearance of the fpots being not merely owing .to the 

 varying luftre of each, but to a real convexity which takes place on every 

 feather fo marked, as appears very evidently when the feathers are viewed 

 in profile. 



It is a native of China, and was probably fii-ft defcribed by Edwards, 

 who took his figure from a bird then recently brought from India. In fize 

 it fomewhat exceeds the phafianus colchicus, or common pheafant. It is remark- 

 able that this bird is generally furn fhed with two fpurs on each leg, for 

 which reafon Linnsus has given it a trivial name taken from that circum- 

 ftance. The beak is dark brown, but the fuperior part of the upper man- 

 dible is reddilh. The feathers on the head are narrow, elongated, and form 

 an upright, (lightly reverfed creft. 



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