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2. 
FIRE-BACKED 
PH. 
DascRIPTIONe 
BP HOES ASS MAS NET, 
Fire-backed Pheafant of Java, Emb. to Chin. i. p. 246. pl. 13.-=Nat. Mfc. 
9. pl. 321- 
S1Z E, of a common Fow/: the bill long, pale in colour, and pretty 
much curved, yet lefs fo than in the Jmpeyan Pheafant: the face 
and fides of the head, much beyond the eyes, covered with a bare 
rugofe fkin, as in others of the genus, and hanging in a kind of wattle 
on each fide the throat: the general colour of the plumage black, 
with a glofs of blue in fome lights: the feathers at the back part of 
the head much lengthened into a fort of creft: the lower part of the 
back ferruginous, varying into a bright fiery orange colour in different 
refleCtions: of light; this furrounds the belly, and is much of the fame 
colour, but without the brilliancy of orange as above: the feathers of 
the neck and breaft are rounded at the ends, and appear diftinét and 
fealv, as in the common Turkey: the tail of the fame colour as the 
body: legs ftout, fcaly, each furnifhed with a long and ftout fpur, 
fharp at the end; the colour pale like that of the bill. 
The above was prefented to Sir George Staunton at Batavia; but 
whether indigenous to fava or not, is far from certain. 
The tail was mutilated, fo as to make it impoflible to afcertain of 
what length it had been originally. 
