﻿7 i 8 PHEASANT. 



lour of the plumage crimfon : on the head is a moil beautiful 

 gloffy yellow creft, the feathers of which appear like fdk, and fall 

 backwards : cheeks almoft bare, and flefh-coloured : the feathers 

 of the hind-head are orange-coloured, fquare at the ends, and 

 crofled with black lines ; thefe are long, and can be erected at 

 will, like thofe on the neck of the Cock ; beneath thefe the 

 feathers are green, very little rounded at the ends, and tipped 

 with black : the back and rump are yellow : the upper tail co- 

 verts long, narrow, and crimfon, and fall on each fide of the tail : 

 the wing coverts chefnut and brown mixed : fcapulars blue : 

 quills brown, marked with yellowifh fpots : the tail is long and 

 cuneiform, the longeft feather twenty-three inches, and the outer 

 one very Ihort; the colour chefnut and black beautifully varie- 

 gated : the legs are yellow, and furnifhed with a fpur a quarter 

 of an inch in length. 

 Female. The female is fmaller, and wants the gaudy colours of the male. 



The irides are hazel : the feathers of the head longifh : the gene- 

 ral colour of the plumage brown, variegated with yellowifri 

 brown : the tail is fhorter, but not much unlike that of the male': 

 the legs have no fpurs. 

 Place and The native place of this beautiful fpecies is China, where it is 



called Kin-ki. It bears confinement well, and will breed readily 

 in that ftate, infomuch as to quite render needlefs any importa- 

 tion from their native country. The eggs are redder than thofe 

 of our Pheafants, fomewhat refembling thofe of the Guinea fowl. 

 They will alfo breed with our Common Pheafant ; an inftance of 

 it is mentioned by Buffon, which produced two male birds ; one 

 of which paired with a femflle common Pheafant and had one 



young, which was a female* 



They 



