PHEASANT. 
Genus LIV. PHEASANT. 
N* 1. Superb Ph. N° 2. Fire-backed Ph. 
Phafianus fuperbus, Jud. Orn. i. p. 628.2. Ware=—Lin, Mantifi. 1771. 
p. 526. Var. 
Phafianus varius, Nar. Mie. 10. pl. 353. 
Superb Pheafant, Gez. Syn. iv. p. 709. 2. Var. 
HIS bird is of the fize of a fmall Cask: the bill and legs yellow: 
it is furnifhed with a creft and wattles, which laft occupy almoft 
as much fpace as in the Turkey: on the neck are hackles, as in the 
Cock, of a dark green, with pale edges: the feathers over the fhoulders 
are long and black, edged with chefnut: the breaft and under parts 
black: the rump furnifhed with long black hackles, with pale edges: ' 
the tail of a dark fhining green, with the long fickle-fhaped feathers 
hanging on each fide, as in the domeftic Cock: the quills are brown: 
on each leg is one {pur behind, at the ufual place. 
This was fhewn to me by Mr. Humphries, a colleétor of curious 
fubjeéts in Natural Hiftory ; but he was able to give no account of 
it, further than that it was fuppofed to have come from India. 
In a drawing fhewn to me by Colonel Woodford, the feathers of the 
neck were blue, edged with yellow: lefler wing coverts golden yel- 
low ; the reft of the wing orange tawny: vent white: rump hackles 
black, with deep yellow edges: quills and tail deep blue, with two 
fickle feathers on the fides, as in the common Cock: bill and legs 
yellow, with one fpur behind, 
Supp. II, Nr 
DESCREPTION. 
