168 PHEASANT. 



I observed a specimen of this at the late Mr. Humphries's, a 

 collector of natural history curiosities, who informed me, that it came 

 from India. 



In a drawing, pointed out to me by the late Mr. Woodford, and 

 of which I have a copy, the neck feathers are deep blue, edged with 

 yellow ; wing coverts golden yellow, the rest of the wing orange 

 tawny; vent white; quills and tail blue black, the rest as above men- 

 tioned.-— The one described by Linnaeus, and which I judge to be the 

 same, has a red bill ; on the forehead a red, rounded caruncle, and 

 two blood-red wattles under the chin ; crown of the head green ; at 

 the hindhead a folded blue crest; neck behind green, furnished on 

 each side with long variegated feathers, standing out from the neck, 

 and turning backwards ; shoulders green, spotted with white ; wings 

 red ; prime quills blue ; body red ; tail long, and cuneiform, the 

 feathers blue and red mixed ; the coverts of several colours, falling 

 over the sides of it ; legs yellow, without spurs. This was described 

 from the various representations of it on paper hangings, and Porce- 

 lain, assisted by a Chinese book, which came under his inspection. 

 I have scarcely a doubt of this and the one described above being 

 the same; but in that which I saw, the end of the tail was imperfect. 



5.— DOMESTIC COCK. 



Phasianus Gallus, Lin. i. 270. Gm. Lin. i. 737. Faun. suec. No. 199. Borowsk. 



ii. 177. 

 Gallus, domesticus et Gallina, Bris. i. 166. Id. 8vo. i. 45. Rati, 51. A. 1. Will. 



109. t. 26. Sc/uef. el. orn. t. 38. Roman, i. 56. t. 9. & p. 59. t. 7. Gerin. ii. 



207. 208. Temm. Pig. 8f Gall. Svo. ii. p. 92. 

 Alector, Klein, 111. A. 1. Id. Ov. 31. t. 13. f. 1. Naturf. xvii. 68. 

 Per Gemeine Haushahn, Schmid, Vog. p. 93. t. 79. 

 Coq commun, Bnf.W. 116. t. 2. Pl.enl. 1. Robert, Ic. pi. 7. 

 Domestic Cock, Gen. Syn. iv. 700. Albin, iiu pi. 32. Will. Engl. 54. pi. 26. Sloan. 



Jam. ii. 301. Phil. Trans, xii. 923. Bewick, i. pi. p.. 276. WalcoVs Birds, p. 177. 



OUR common Poultry, with all the Varieties, seem to have 

 originated from one or other of the species above described, and vary 



