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fentations of it painted on paper-hangings and China-ware ; and 

 farther confirmed by a figure and defcription in a Chineje book 

 which came under his infpection. 



We have lately feen a drawing of the tail feather of a bird of 

 the Pheafant kind, which meafured above fix feet in length, and 

 which, it is probable, mull have belonged to fome bird not hi- 

 therto come to our knowledge. The drawing is in the pofieffion 

 of Major Davies, who took it from the original feather; two of 

 which were in the pofTeffion of a gentleman of his acquaintance, 

 and were brought from China. They are exactly in fhape of the 

 two middle feathers of the painted Pheafant : the general colour 

 of a fine blue grey, margined on the fides with a rufous cream- 

 colour, and marked on each fide the fhaft with numerous bars of 

 black ; between feventy and eighty bars in all ; thofe on the op- 

 pofite fides of the (baft feldom correfponding with each other. 



ARGUS PH. ^hafianus Argus, Lin. Syji. L p, 272. 4. 



L' Argus ou le Luen, Buf. oif. ii. p. 361. 



The Argus, or Luen, Phil. Tranf. vol. lv. pi. 3. p. 88. — London Mag. 1766, 

 pi. in p. 473. — Gent. Mag. 1768, pi. in p. 521. 

 £r. Muf. Lev. Muf.' 



Description. C I Z E of a Cock Turkey. The bill, like that of our Pheafant, 

 of a pale yellow: the fore part of the head, and the begin- 

 ning of the throat, are covered with a granulated fkin of a fine 

 fcarlet colour : the hides are orange : round the eye the ikin is 

 dulky, and a kind of black whifker on each fide of the lower jaw : 

 the top and hind part of the head and neck, changeable blue : at 

 the hind head a foiked creft : the lower part of the neck, back, 

 and wing coverts, duiky, marked irregularly and tranfverlely with 

 7 reddilh 



