﻿PHEASANT. 



the general colour is white ; and the bird is covered wholly on 

 the outfide of the legs, quite to the toes. 



Inhabits Japan* ; and reckoned fcarce even in China, where the 

 Cantonefe. carry them about in cages for fale to the Europeans. 



Thefe feem to vary. Some which I have feen are of a pure 

 white; others of a dingy brown ; but all of them have dark- 

 coloured legs, on which, for the moft part,, is a thick, (lout, and 

 fhort fpur, though I obferved one Cock totally without ; the 

 legs not always feathered. 



In the collection of Charles Boddam, Efq^ is one of thefe, with 

 two hind toes t, and a blunt flat fpur, above an inch in length. 



709 



Placs, 



Phafianus fuperbos, Lin. Mantijf. 1771. p. 526. 



1 <*'H E bill in this fpecies is red : on the forehead is a red ca- 

 runcle, fomewhat rounded in fhape, and two wattles, of a 

 blood-red colour, under the chin, as in the Cock: the crown of 

 the head is green ; at the hind part a folded creft, of a blue 

 colour : the hind part of the neck is green ; on each fide fur- 

 nilhed with long variegated feathers, which ftand out from 

 the neck, and turn backwards : the fhoulders are green, fpotted 

 with white : the wings red : prime quills blue : the body is red : 

 the tail long and cuneiform ; the feathers are blue and red mixedi, 

 and the coverts are of feveral colours, and fall over the fides of 

 it ". the legs are yellow, and not furnifhed with fpurs. 



This is a bird defcribed by Linn^us from the various repre- 



SUPERB ?H. 

 Description 



* A penalty is incurred by killing a Cock in Japan — See K<&np. Jap. p. 58 j . 

 f OJleck mentions this circumftance in the Siamefe fowls. — See Voy. vol. ii; 



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