﻿Female, 



PHEASANT. 



to the margin : the tail is cuneiform, the feathers obliquely 

 driated with black, except the two middle ones, which are plain 

 white : the legs are red, and furnifhed with a fpur behind, of a 

 white colour. 



The female is fomewhat fmaller. The bill is brown : the 

 irides yellow brown : the eyes furrounded with a red fkin, which 

 is narrower, and lefs bright than in the male : the head is a little 

 creded, and brown "• throat and cheeks whitifh : the neck, back, 

 bread, rump, and wing coverts, rufous brown : the lower part of 

 the bread, belly, and other parts beneath, are white, irregularly 

 mixed with brown, and eroded with tranfverfe black bands : 

 greater quills blackifh j fecondaries like the back ; thofe neared 

 the body dotted with white : tail fhorter than in the male ■, the 

 two middle feathers brown ; the others brown and white mixed, 

 and driped obliquely with black : legs red, without fpurs. 

 Place. This fpecies inhabits China with the lad, and is likewife 



bred in our menageries. The eggs are of a pale yellowiih alh- 

 colour, with a blulh of red. 



7. Le Hocco brun du Mexique, Sri/, orn. i. p. 304. 15. 



CRESTED PH. Faifan huppe de Cayenne, PL enl. 337. 



Pl. LXIV. t >u • z> /-•/••■ o 



L, Hoazin, Buf. 01/. it. p. 385. 



Hoaftzin, Raii Syn. p. 163. — Will. orn. p. 389. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. T ENGTH one foot ten inches. Bill black : the head fur- 

 nifhed with a credj the feathers of which are of different 

 lengths, the longed three inches ; colour of them dirty brownifh 

 white -, beneath black : round the eye bare and reddifh : the 

 upper parts of the body are brown ; the under, as far as the 

 belly, rufous white : the belly and vent rufous \ from the hind 



head 



