PHEASANT. 



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GENUS LXI— PHEASANT. 



* Crown with fleshy Comb 

 and Wattles. 



1 Jago Cock 



2 Malabar 



3 Javan 



4 Superb 



5 Domestic 



A Crested 

 B Darking 

 C Friesland 

 D Rumpless 

 E Dwarf 

 F Bantam 

 G Rough-footed 

 H Turkish 

 I Paduan 

 K Negro 



L Tophaceous 

 M Horned 

 N Silk 

 O Pencilled 

 P Siberian 

 Q Barbary 



6 Sonnerat's Wild Cock 



7 Fire-backed Cock 

 A Var. 



8 Butool Cock 



* * Crown covered with 

 Feathers. 



9 Common Pheasant 

 A Ring 



B Variegated 

 C White 

 D Bohemian 



E Hybridal 

 F Roussard 

 G Turkey 



10 Painted 



11 Barred-tailed 



12 Pencilled 



13 Chittygong 



14 Lineated 



15 Nepaul 



16 Coloured 



17 Sumatran 



18 Rufous-tailed 



19 Sanguine 



20 Argus 



21 Sylhet 



22 Horned 



23 Impeyan 



24 Crested 



1 HE bill, in this Genus, is convex, short, and strong. 



Head more or less covered with a carunculated bare, fleshy 

 membrane on the sides, which, in some, is continued upwards to the 

 crown, and beneath, so as to hang pendent under each jaw. 



Legs, for the most part, furnished with spurs behind. 



The Common Fowl, and we believe all the granivorous birds, 

 more or less, are observed to pick up small pebbles along with the 

 grain dealt out to them for food ; that it is for the sake of assisting 

 digestion, there is no doubt; but writers have differed in opinion. 

 Boerhaave thinks these stones serve as an absorbent to counteract the 

 acid in the stomach ; but this can scarcely be, as the birds as often 

 pick up small portions of flint as any other; neither can we allow, 

 that it is owing to the mere stupidity of the Fowl, as Spallanzani* 



* Dissertation on the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables, translated by Dr. 



Beddoes, 1784. Vol. i. p. 27. 



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