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private gentlemen, by which means the breed is daily becoming more 

 common : it is true, that these mix and breed with the Common Sort, 

 and that in such produce the ring on the neck is less bright, and 

 sometimes incomplete, but which of the two will ultimately prepon- 

 derate, in respect to plumage, can scarcely be conjectured. 



These are frequent in India, but smaller than the Common 

 Pheasant; and by the drawing of one in the collecton of Sir John 

 Anstruther, the feathers at the hind part of the head are elongated 

 into a tuft ; and from the back part of each caruncle, a sort of 

 appendage standing out backwards about a quarter of an inch. 



They are also common about the Caspian Sea, and in the south 

 part of the Desert between the Rivers Don and Wolga ; likewise in 

 Great Tartary, and in the south of the Mongolian Desert, but are 

 observed to be less than the Common Pheasant, and in their wild 

 state are seldom known to perch on trees. They are also pretty 

 common at St. Helena. 



B.— Phasianus varius, Ind. Orn.W. 630. y. Gm. Lin. i. 742. Bris.i. 267. A. t. 26. 



f.3. Id. Svo. i. 75. Frisch, 1. 124. Boroiosk. ii. 175. Nat. Misc. pi. 353. Tern. 



Pig. & Gall. Svo. ii. p. 309. 

 Le Faisan panache,' Buf.W. 352. 

 Variegated Pheasant, Gen.Syn.'w. 716. Hayes's Birds, pi. 21. 



The general colour of the plumage of this bird is white, marked 

 in various parts with the usual colours of the Pheasant. 



C— Phasianus albus, hid. Om. ii. 630. &. Bris. i. 268. B. Id. 8vo. i. 75. Gm. Lin. 

 i. 742. Borotosk. ii. 175. Gerin. iii. t. 259. Temm. Pig. $ Gall. Svo. ii. p. 312. 

 Weisser Faisan, Naturf. xvi. 126 (Goetz). 



This is wholly white, except a few minute black spots about the 

 neck, and some rufous ones on the scapulars. 



