﻿7 oo PHEASANT. 



In refpedV. to Europe, little need be faid, as varieties without end 

 are every where feen, and their manners fully known to every 

 one. Ic is obferved, however, that they breed moft freely in the 

 warmer fituations. In the very cold regions, though they will 

 live and thrive, they ceafe to multiply *. 



, T *• Phafianus Gallus, Lin. Syjl.l. p. 270. 1. — Faun. Suec. N° iqq. 



V AR A ' - 



DOMESTIC C "^ e ^°1 ^ ' a P° u ' e ' Sri/, cm. i. p. 166. I. 



Coq commun, Buf. ci/. ii. p. n6. pi. 2.— PI. enl. 1. 



Dunghill Cock and Hen, Rati Sjn, p. 51. A. 1. — Will, orn. p. 154. pi". 260 

 — Albin. iii. pi, 32. 



Br. Mu/. Lev. Muf. 



Description. f\ p t his lb many varieties appear, that to defcribe them would 

 be endlefs : however, the one here meant by the above 

 authors, feems to have the largeft comb of any, with eight or nine 

 ferratures : the bare fpace round the eyes larger, and the wattles 

 hanging very low : the head, neck, back, and wing coverts, 

 orange: greater wing coverts, quills, and under parts, white : the 

 long fickle feathers of the tail blue black. 



Birds of this fort vary in colour without end, and are exceed- 

 ingly beautiful ; fometimes quite white. At the head of this 

 fhould ftand that which is known by the name of Game-cock, 

 which is felefted on account of its courage, in which point 



IJles : at the two laft of a prodigious fize. Not uncommon at the Marque/as, 

 Hebrides, and New Caledonia ; but the Lonu IJles quite defiitute of them. — See 



Ob/, p. 193. Ducks and poultry numerous in the Sandwich IJles. — Cook's 



"Journal, p. 229. 



* They are not found to breed in the northern parts of Sibiria ; and in 

 Greenland axe only kept as raritUs, — Faun, Grse/il, 



oaly 



