( loi ) 



MUSEUM LEVERIANUM. 



No. III. 

 PHASIANUS CURVIROSTRIS. 



CHARACTER GENERIC US. 



GenjE cute nuda Isvigata, 



D" 



Lin, Syfl. Nat. p. 270. 



CHARACTER S P E C I F I C U S, &c. 



Phafianus cupreo-purpureus, viridi-nitens, corpore fubtus nigricante, capite 

 criftato, roftro elongato. 



Phafianus Impejanus. 



Lalh. Ind. Orn. f. 632. 



NO N nifi intra paucos annos Europceis innotuit Phafianus curviroftris, feu 

 Impeyanus. Plumis decoratur mirum in modum fulgidis et venuftis. 

 Dorfum alsque lucide purpureo-nigricant viridi cupreoque verficolora. Quas in 

 collo plums, anguftjE et acuminatCE, nitidifTime funt cupreo-ferruginere. Cin- 

 guntur oculorum orbitje cute nuda casruleo-virefcente. Cauda fulvo-ferruginea, 

 apicem rotundala. Corporis inferiora fufco-nigra. AfTurgit crifta infigniter de- 

 No. III. P cora. 



