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also with the Superb Pheasant, though differing in others. One in 

 the same collection under the name of Superb Pheasant, with a most 

 magnificent comb, very large, reaching from the forehead quite 

 beyond the nape, and hanging over it at the back part ; the fore part 

 of the neck bare, with only here and there a minute feathery spot ; 

 the wattles, too, very large, and dependent ; the general colour of 

 the plumage waved steel-colour, the feathers edged with black at the 

 hind part of the neck and beginning of the back; on the lower part 

 of the back and rump narrow hackles, from two to three inches long, 

 blunt at the ends, edged with buff, and hanging on each side of the 

 tail ; wing coverts long, fulvous, or reddish, down the middle black ; 

 breast and all beneath black ; quills black ; tail the same, long, and 

 bending downwards. This is also said to come from Java ; perhaps 

 allied to the following. 



4— SUPERB PHEASANT. 



Phasianus superbus, Ind. Orn. ii. 628. Lin. Mant. 1771. 526. Gm. Lin. i. 744. 



Gallus Javanicus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 185. 



Phasianus varius, Variegated Pheasant, Nat. Misc. pi. 353. 



Superb Pheasant, Gen. Syn. iv. 709. Id. Sup. ii. 273. 



SIZE of a small Cock. Bill and legs yellow; head furnished 

 with a crest and wattles ; the latter occupying almost as much space 

 as in the Turkey ; the neck, or hackle feathers long, and narrow, as 

 in the Cock, dark green, with pale edges ; those of the shoulders 

 long, black, and edged with chestnut ; breast and under parts black ; 

 the rump furnished with long black feathers, with pale edges, hang- 

 ing down on each side of the base of the tail, which is glossy dark 

 green, with long, sickle-shaped, feathers, curving down on each side, 

 as in the Common Cock ; quills brown ; on each leg behind a single 

 spur. 



Inhabits Java, known there by the name of Pitte-wonno. 



