174 PHEASANT. 



affirmed, that those transported from England to Virginia, lost their 

 tails.* — M. Levaillant, at Paris, received one of these from Ceylon, 

 shot in a state of nature; the distinguishing mark is a spot just 

 below the throat, like a gorget, composed of hard, short, square, 

 shining feathers ;f it is the size of the Common Cock, but a little 

 higher and more erect on the legs; colour not unlike that of the 

 Game Cock, but all the feathers yellow, striped down the middle 

 with black ; the quills very dark. 



E.— Phasianus Gallus Pumilio, Gm. Lin. i. 738. y). Bris. i. 171. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 46. 



Rail, 51. A. 1. Var. 2. Frisch, t. 133. 134. Will. 110. t. 26. Gerin. ii. 70. t. 



214. Johnst. Av. pi. 15. f. 5. 

 Le Coq nain, Buf. ii. 118. Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. Svo. ii. p. 244. 

 Dwarf Cock, or Creeper, Gen. Si/n. iv. 705. Will. Engl. 156. 



This has the legs exceedingly short, from thence termed Dwarf, 

 and is besides considerably smaller than other Fowls, some not ex- 

 ceeding the size of a large Pigeon ; allied to this is the Acoho, or 

 Coq de Madagascar,:}: and the Poule de l'lsthme de Darien,§ which 

 is also very small ; with a circle of feathers about the legs ; a thick 

 tail, which it carries straight ; and the ends of the wings black ; 

 others said to come from Cambodia, || and now found in the Philippine 

 Isles, have the legs so short, as to drag the wings on the ground. 

 In addition to which, Buffon mentions a Fowl in Britany, which is 

 always obliged to leap, the legs being so short. It is the size of a 

 Common Fowl, aud kept as being very fruitful. 



* Clayton's account of Virginia, in Phil. Trans, xvii. 992. 



f The general colour of the plumage yellowish orange, each feather striped down the 

 middlewith black. 



% Hist, des Ois. ii. 117. 4. This kind is said to cover 30 eggs of its own at once. 

 § Ibid. ii. 118. 6. || lb. ii. 118. 



