202 PHEASANT. 



lineated and dotted with black ; the tips white, but the lower half 

 of the outer web has numerous black lines and dots ; legs dirty flesh- 

 colour ; spurs straight and strong. 



Described from a bird in an aviary in India ; but from whence 

 uncertain. It was a male, and has many things in common with 

 the Coloured Pheasant; but seems to differ considerably both in 

 crest and tail feathers, nor is it likely that these birds vary merely in 

 sex, as both are furnished with spurs on the legs. I am indebted to 

 Dr. Buchanan for the above account. 



Among the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther is a similar bird, but 

 the upper parts are lead, or slate-colour, not black, though with the 

 same markings. 



15— NEPAUL PHEASANT. 



SIZE of the last; and like that, tufted on the back part of the 

 head, but the tuft more compact, and of a greater length ; head, 

 neck behind, chin, and throat, bluish black ; the upper half of the 

 back much the same, but the feathers fringed with rufous ; the lower 

 half, rump, and upper tail coverts, blue black, the feathers deeply 

 fringed with white; those of the under parts, from the throat, long, 

 and pointed, of a dusky white, very little darker in the middle; 

 thighs and vent dusky ; wing coverts as the hack ; quills brown ; 

 tail long, wedge-shaped, the feathers covering each other, and com- 

 pressed as in the last described, but are less numerous, and rounded 

 at the ends ; colour greenish black ; the bill is pale, hooked at the 

 end ; legs pale flesh-colour, with a small, very short, and blunt spur, 

 nearly straight. 



The female is wholly brown, the margins of all the feathers pale 

 rufous ; sides of the head paler, and the carunculated parts, round 

 the eyes, less bright ; bill hooked at the end ; nostrils pervious, and 

 seem rounded, and somewhat rugose at the top ; legs without spurs. 



