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for any confiderable time after catching it in the woods ; never 

 for more than a month. It ieems to have an antipathy to the 

 light, being quite inanimate in the open day ; but when kept 

 in a dark place, it appears perfe&ly at eafe, and fometimes makes 

 its note or call, from which it takes its name ; and which is ra- 

 ther plaintive, and not harfh like that of a Peacock. The flelh 

 refembles that of the Common Pheafant. 



4 



4- COMMON Phafianus colchkus, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 271. 3. — Scop. ann. i. N° 166. — Brun. 



p H. am. 58.— AT. C.Petr. XV. p. 451. N° 7. — Frifch. pi. 123. — Olin. uc. 



p. 49. 

 Le Faifan, Br if. orn. i. p. 262. 1. — Buf. oif. ii. p. 328. pi. 11. — PL en!. 



121. 122. 

 •Pheafant, Raii Syn. p. 56. A. I. — Will. orn. p. 163. pi. 28. — Albin, i. pi. 

 35. 26. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. C I Z E of a fowl : length two feet three quarters of an inch to 

 three feet : weight two pounds twelve ounces to three pounds. 

 The bill is pale horn-colour: hides yellow : fides of the head 

 deep crimfon, granulated, and running into a point behind ; and 

 in old birds elongated over each jaw, like the wattle of a cock, 

 but does not exceed the length of feathers at that part, which is 

 full; this red fpace is dotted with minute black fpots : from the 

 noftrils fprings a line of greenifh black feathers, which pafTes un- 

 der the eye, and a little beyond it : the reft of the head and neck 

 are green gold, changing to violet and blue in fome lights : 

 lower part of the neck, breaft, and fides, glofiy reddifh chtfnut, 

 each feather margined at the end with black ; which in thofe of 

 the neck, rifing upwards a little way on the lhaft, gives the feather 



the 



