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aS 
Py Lees TE, 
PHASIANUS COLCHICUS. 
COMMON PHEASANT. 
GALLINA. 
Bill convex: the upper Mandible arched. “Toes connected by a 
membrane at the bottom. ‘lail feathers more than twelve. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill convex, fhort, ftrong. Head carunculated with bare flefh on 
the fides. Legs (moftly) furnifhed with {purs behind. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
e 5 
SYNONYMS. 
General colour reddifh. Head blue. Tail long, wedge fhaped. 
Membrane of the cheek warted, and of a bright red colour. 
Puasianus Cotcuicus: rufus, capite ceruleo, cauda cuneata, 
genis papillofis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
629. 4: 
Gmel. Syft. I. p. 741. 
Phafianus Colchicus. Linn. Syft. I. p. 271. 3. 
- Brun. Orn. 58. 
Frifch. pl. 123. 
Olin. uc. p. 49. . 
y A 2 -Pheafant. 
