208 PHEASANT. 



21— SYLHET PHEASANT. 



LENGTH three feet at least. General colour of the plumage 

 glossy violet black ; on the back part of the head a kind of crest, 

 composed of six or more feathers, of unequal lengths, and loose in 

 texture, being narrow and distinct, and incline backwards; begin- 

 ning of the back violet black ; the remainder, and rump the same, 

 but the feathers deeply margined with white ; the tail longish, 

 compressed, the feathers of unequal lengths, violet blue black, 

 rather rounded at the ends; some of the exterior ones fringed at the 

 tips with white ; greater quills dusky brown ; the bill formed as in 

 the Cock, pale; the whole side of the head covered with a fine, 

 carunculated, crimson skin, as in the Pheasant; the legs pale flesh- 

 colour, with a long spur at the back part. 



Inhabits India; brought from Sylhet, in the Province of Bengal. 

 Sir J. Anstruther. 



22- HORNED PHEASANT. 



Meleagris Satyra, Ind. Orn. ii. 619. Lin. i. 269. Borowsk. ii. t. 27. Gerin. iii. t. 263. 



Penelope Satyra, Gm. Lin. i. 753. 



Phasianus cornutus, Bris. App. p. 14. Id. Svo. i. 86. 



Phasianus Satyrus, Faisan Napal, Temm. Pig. $f Gallin. 8vo. ii. p. 349. 



Le Nepaul, ou Faisan cornu, Buf. ii. 349. 



Horned Pheasant, Edw. pi. 116. 



Horned Turkey, Gen. Syn.'w. 680. Id. Sup. 203. View of Hindoost.Vu pi. in p. 344. 



SIZE between a Fowl and a Turkey. Bill brown ; the nostrils, 

 fore part of the head, and round the eyes, covered with slender, 

 black, hairy feathers; top of the head red ; behind each eye a fleshy, 

 callous, blue substance, like a horn, tending backwards; on the 

 fore part of the neck and throat a loose flap, of an exceedingly fine 

 blue colour, marked with orange spots ; the lower part beset with a 



