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The beak is of a fingular form j the upper mandible beuig confiderably pro- 

 longed over ^e lower, and extremely curved. It might be fufpeifted that this 

 was an accidental circumftance ; but as it takes place equally in all the fpecimens 

 I have yet feen, I imagine it to be the proper and conftant form of the beak. 

 It therefore affords a very good mark of diftindlion, and the Latin trivial or 

 cormnon name is taken from thence. Its Englifli name of Impeyan Pheafant 

 may be ftill retained with great propriety, fince it was firft introduced to the 

 notice of naturalifts by the Lady of Sir Elijah Impey, who brought feveral 

 Ipecimens from India. 



The fize of this curious bird is at leaf!: equal to that of a common fowl, 

 The female is fmaller than the male, and is principally of a brown colour, 

 varied with marks and undulations of a deeper and lighter caft ; the longer 

 ^^ino■ feathers are alfo black in the female, the fecondary ones barred with 

 black and ferruginous : the tail extremely fhort, and coloured like the reft of 

 the bird j and the legs, inftead of fpurs, as in the male, are only furnifhed with a 

 knob or tubercle. The Impeyan Pheafant is chiefly found in the northern, 

 parts of Hindoftan. 



CAPRA 



