192 PHEASANT. 



One in the Leverian Museum was wholly white ; I likewise 

 observed another in the collection of Gen. Davies, which was killed 

 in a wood, seven miles from Chichester, in Sussex, Nov. 1787.* 



D. — This seems a beautiful Variety, for as such it can only be 

 esteemed : the carunculated red skin round the eye occupies less 

 space than in the Common Sort, but the head and neck much the 

 same in colour, the plumage otherwise a clouded rufous white; the 

 feathers on the under parts with black margins, and on the upper 

 streaked and margined with dusky or brown ; the tail, too, has the 

 bars as usual, but less defined in colour ; bill and legs pale. Such 

 birds as these are said to come from Bohemia, and a specimen of this 

 is in Mr. Bullock's Museum. 



E.— Phasianus hybridus, Ind. Orn. ii. 630. s. Gm. Lin. i. 742. Bris. i. 268. C. Id. 

 8vo. i. 75. Frisch, t. 125. Borowsk. ii. 175. Temm. Pig. $ Gall. 8vo. ii. 314. 

 Le Coquar, Bvf. ii. 353. pi. 12. 

 Hybridal Pheasant, Gen. Si/n. iv. 716. 



This has the eyes surrounded with a red skin, and a few white 

 spots on the crown of the head ; upper part of the back rufous, 

 varied with brown and white ; from thence to the tail ash-colour, 

 crossed with black ; belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, pale brown, 

 ash-colour, and dusky, mixed; wing coverts much like the back; 

 greater quills pale brown ; the lesser white, varied on the outer edge 

 with black ; within black edged with rufous ; tail black in the 

 middle ; bill and legs grey. 



* White Pheasants were esteemed formerly, and kept in gentlemen's aviaries; for in 

 the account of some gardens, near London, in 1691, is mentioned " An enclosure, wired in 

 " for White Pheasants and Partridges", in Lord Fauconbergh's garden, at Sutton Court, 

 Arehceol. xii. p. 184. 



