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P H E A S A N T. 



12. 



COLOURED 

 PH. 



Descr-iptlon. 



FtACE. 



CIZE of a Fowl: length twenty-two inches. Bill greenifii 

 white, and pretty much hooked in fliape : fides of the head 

 naked, carunculated, and red, much in the fame manner as in the 

 Pencilled Pheafant : the feathers at the back part of the head much 

 elongated, forming a creft, which hangs down behind : the head^ 

 throat, and hind part of the neck, are black ; the back, rump, and 

 wing coverts, the fame, flightly edged with white : prime quills 

 dufliy brown : tail rather large, even at the end, and black : the 

 fore part of the neck, breail, and belly, covered with longilh fharp- 

 pointed feathers, which are black in the middle, deeply edged on 

 the fides with white : thighs black : legs brown black j at the back 

 of each a fpur of a moderate length : claws curved and black. 



Inhabits India, where it is called the Coloured Fowl. — From thft 

 drawings of Lafly Im;^iy*. 



AFRICAN PH. 

 Description. 



Br. Muf. 



T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill exaftly formed as in the- 

 Crejled Pheafant *, being ftout, ftiort, and of a yellow colour ;: 

 the head' is likewife crefted, as in that bird; each feather which- 

 Gompofes it is brown in the middle, and white on the fides: the 

 top of the head is blackifh : back blueifh afh-colour, each fea- 

 ther dafhed with a blackifli ftripe down the Ihaft : chin and fore 

 part of the neck rufty brown : fides of the neck whitifh, a little- 

 mottled with dark brown : breaft and belly white, dalhed down 

 the fhafts with black : wings blueifh afh, (hafts and tips blackifh .=- 

 baftard wing black: the eight firft quills are white on the inner 



* Sjn. vol. iv. p. 720. pi. Lxiv, 



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