210 PHEASANT. 



Fowl ; the other, Moory Manmoorei, or Bright Fowl. In the 

 drawings of Sir J. Anstrulher it is said to inhabit the snowy Alps 

 of Thibet. 



23 — IMPEYAN PHEASANT— Pl. cxxv. 



Phasianus Impejanus, Ind. Orn. ii. 632. 



— — — curvirostris, Mus. Lev. pl. p. 103. 



Lophophorus refulgens, Lophophore resplendissant, Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. ii. p. 355. 



Impeyan Pheasant, Gen. Syn. Sup. 208. pl. 114. 



LARGER than a Cock ; length two feet. Bill brown, two 

 inches long, and greatly curved, the under mandible shorter, and 

 concealed beneath the upper; round the eye bare, of a greenish blue; 

 on the head an erect crest, as in the Peacock, of seventeen or eighteen 

 feathers, of different lengths, the longest three inches and a half; 

 these consist of little more than shafts, except at the ends, where 

 they are oval, with a spear-shaped point; the feathers of the neck 

 are long and loose, not unlike the hackles of a Cock ; those of the 

 head and throat are green bronze ; of the middle of the neck purple, 

 with a gloss of copper ; and the lower part yellow copper bronze ; 

 all exceedingly brilliant, and changeable in different reflections of 

 light; the back and wing coverts rich purple, tipped with green 

 bronze ; prime quills black ; the under parts of the body, from chin 

 to vent, dull black, with here and there a greenish gloss; thighs the 

 same, feathered below the joint ; tail brownish cinnamon-colour, 

 rounded at the end, where it is dusky, the feathers fourteen in 

 number ; legs stout, rough, and scaly, of a dark brown ; toes long, 

 between them at the base, a slight membrane ; at the back part of 

 the legs a thick, short, spur. 



The female is smaller, and less elegant in shape, length twenty- 

 two inches. Bill, and sides round the eyes, as in the male; plumage 

 in general brown, the middle of each feather paler, or buff-coloured, 

 mottled, and barred with dark brown, somewhat like the back of 



