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streak ; lower part of the back ferruginous ; tail rounded, brown ; 

 legs red, naked, and furnished with two long sharp spurs, one above 

 the other. 



The female has the head varied with black and ash-colour ; 

 breast, back, and wings, rusty brown ; the feathers of the two latter 

 brown in the middle, those of the back margined with luteous; tail 

 brown ; legs without spurs. 



Inhabits Ceylon, taken near Colombo, in that Island. The 

 Cingalese call it Haban-kukella. 



A. — Size of a Pheasant; length seventeen inches. Bill pale 

 ash-colour; a broad oval space round the eyes, naked, and pink- 

 colour, beginning at the nostrils, and ending in a point behind ; 

 nostrils in a kind of cere ; head and neck white, marked with black 

 lines ; on the ear a brown patch ; back and wings most beautifully 

 barred with black and pale brown lines, edged and tipped with 

 white ; breast black, with semilunar, white lines; belly pale reddish 

 brown, edged with white, marked irregularly in the middle with 

 dusky; tail mottled white and pale brown, crossed with bars, or 

 zig-zag lines of black and white; legs the colour of the bill, and 

 without a spur behind. 



The last described has been by some supposed to be the other 

 sex of the Impeyan Pheasant, but falsely, as it comes from a different 

 part of the country ; being common in the lower parts of Bengal, 

 and the Province of Chittygong, and is a most beautiful bird ; it is 

 probably, from the want of spur, a female ; and if so, may be that 

 sex in the most adult plumage, of the Ceylon Species ; and the one 

 described as such in Indian Zoology, a young bird. 



In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden, is a male. The mottling 

 of the feathers about the neck and breast most beautiful ; they are 

 buff with a black streak, broader below, having a dash of white in 



