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THE PAINTED PHEASANT. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cheeks covered with a fmooth naked fkin. Lin. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Pheafant with yellow creft, fcarlet breall, bkie fecondaries, and cuneated 

 tail. 



Painted Pheafant. Eilw. t. 68, Cx). 



Lath. Syn. 4. />. 717. 



Faifan dore de la Chine. Buff. 2. p. 355. 



Fl. ail. 217. 

 The Golden Pheafant. 



OF the brilliancy with which Nature fo often decorates the feathered tribe 

 the Golden Pheafant of China is unqueftionably one of the moft ftriking 

 examples : a bird, of which the colours, when in a ftate of perfe(flion, are fo 

 powerfully lucid as to dazzle, in a fall light, the eye of the fpeftator ; and 

 can only be exceeded by the polifhed luftre of the Humming-birds and Certhis. 

 Even the Peacock himfelf, with all the grandeur of his gaudy plumage, flUIs 

 ihort in comparifon, 



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