﻿PHEASANT. 71* 



fedllifh brown : the nine outer quills are pale yellow brown, 

 marked with fmalk dufky fpots, as big as tares, on the outer, and 

 fmaller fpots of white on the inner, webs ; the eleven remaining 

 quills dark brown, marked with round and oblong fpots on both 

 webs -, and on the outer, near the fhafts, a row of large eyes, 

 from twelve to fifteen in number, the largeft an inch in diameter, 

 fomewhat refembling thofe on a Peacock's train : the throat, 

 bread, rump, and upper tail coverts, dull orange, marked with 

 round dufky fpots-: the tail confifts of fourteen feathers; the two 

 middle ones are three feet in length ; the next eighteen inches, 

 and gradually fhorten to the outer ones, which are twelve inches 

 only in length ; the colour dufky brown, dotted with white ; and 

 the two middle ones have round white fpots encircled with black 

 on the outer, and brown irregular ones furrounded with dufky 

 on the inner, webs: the lower belly and vent dufky, irregularly 

 mixed with brown : the legs,. like thofe of a Turkey, of a greenifh 

 afh-colour *. 



This inhabits^ China j and the figure fuppofed to be pretty ex- Pl / ce ANn 



, . , Manners, 



aft. The head and legs were wanting in the bird fent over ,- but 



were fupplied from the painted figure fent along with it. Such 



a bird, put in attitude, is now to be feen in the Leverian Mufeum-, 



and feveral parcels of the feathers are now in England, viz. at the 



Britijh Mufeum, Sir Jofeph Banks's, Mr. Boddam's, and elfe- 



where. 



This is likewife common in the woods at Sumatra j-, where it 



is called Coo-ow. It is found extremely difficult to be kept alive 



* In the figure the legs have no fpurs ; but in a drawing, done by Mr. Ed- 

 wards, they are furnifhed with a fpur, like that of a Cock, 

 f Hift, of Sumatra, p. 97, 



for 



