PHEASANT. 203 



Inhabits India, chiefly Nepaul. — One of the males, in the draw- 

 ings of General Hardwicke, answers; but the feathers at the nape 

 are merely a slender tuft, three inches and a half long, and white, 

 springing from a black base. 



Among Lord Mountnorris's collection of drawings are figures of 

 both sexes of this bird. 



16.— COLOURED PHEASANT. 



Phasianus leucomelanos, Ind. Orn. ii. 633. Temm. Pig. fy Gall. 8vo. ii. p. 353. 



Lophophoie, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. xci. 



Faisan noir, Sorinin. Buf. vi. 246. Tab. Enc. Orn. p. 189. 



Coloured Pheasant, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 210. 



SIZE of a Fowl ; the length twenty-two inches. Bill greenish 

 white, and much hooked; sides of the head naked, carunculated, 

 and red ; the feathers at the back of the head long, forming a crest, 

 which hangs down behind ; the head, throat, and neck, at the back 

 part, are black ; back, rump, and wing coverts the same, slightly 

 edged with white ; prime quills dusky brown ; tail long, even at the 

 end, and black ; fore part of the neck, breast, and belly covered with 

 longish, sharp-pointed, black feathers, deeply edged on the sides 

 with white ; thighs black ; legs brown black, behind each a spur of 

 a moderate length ; claws curved, black. 



Inhabits India, and called there the Coloured Fowl. — From the 

 drawings of Lady Impey. 



The last three are described from the various figures in the 

 collections referred to, but it is by no means certain, that they may 

 not vary in their plumage, like many of the Gallinaceous Tribe, and 

 prove to be one and the same bird, at different periods of growth. 



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