ORDER GALLING. 21 



Superb Pheasant, Lath. Pli. T^arius. Sh. Nat. 

 Mis. S5S ; Gal. Furcatus, Tern. Col. 374. 



Black ; with the neck, copper-green, mixed with 

 black. The crest is without indentations, and under 

 the throat is a small dewlap, without lateral 

 wattles.* 



The Pheasants, properly so called, have a long 

 graduated tail, and the quills arranged in two planes, 

 and covering one another in an imbricated form. 



* The tail is horizontal and forked, the neck-feathers short and rounded ; 

 the body is golden-green, above; and black beneath; the wing- coverts, 

 orange and brown. The hen has no comb, nor crest, and the orbits naked 

 and is probably the Gallus Javanicus of Dr. HorsfieJd, Lin. Trans, xiii. 185. 



The Jago Cock, Marsh. Siimat, 98. Gallus Giganteus. Temm. Gal. 

 in ij. t. 2. f. 1. ; three times the size of the common cock ; first described 

 by Marsden, in his Hist, of Sumatra, and to this species Temminck refers. 

 Tlie Paduan Cock, Lath. Hist. Gallus Paiuornus, Brisson, Orn. ]. 170, 

 Old. av. p. 310, 31 1. Stor. degli Nev. ij. t. 209, 210, as a domestic variety. 



The Malabar Cock may also be a variety of it. 



The WalUchean Foivl, Gallus Ecaudatus, Temm. Gal. ij. 262, 662 ; with 

 an entire comb, and two wattles on the lower jaw j rump, without any tail, 

 but covered by large coverts ; body, orange-brown. Ceylon. 



The female not yet described. When domesticated, variously coloured. 



The Rumpless or Persian Cock of Lath. Gallus Persicus, Brisson, Frisch. 

 t. 131, 132. Will. t. 26. 



The Butrol Pheasant. Gallus Anstrutheri. Gray 5 comb, crenated ; wat- 

 tles, red ; olive-green, paler, beneath ; crown, white ; sides of the head 

 and throat, black; back and rump, darker, finely white banded; wings, 

 rufous, with an oblique white band ; tail more tlian half the length of the 

 bird ; two middle-feathers, tapering, pale-green, with broad bluish bars ; the 

 two next feathers, slender, dilated, blackish, and curled round at the tip ; 

 spurs, large, nearly straight. Length, six or seven feet. Hills of Butool, 

 called GUwut, In General Hardwicke's collection. 



