PHASIANIDiE. 



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is more evident on the outer feathers, and upon 

 those of the upper tail-coverts and its feathers ; these 

 are partly blue and green, surrounded by a black 

 circle, and edged on the side of the tip with a broad 

 band of a most beautiful golden-copper colour, some- 

 what resembling by their disposition those of Poly- 

 plectron chinquis, but infinitely more brilliant in 

 colour : there appear to be four ranges of these eyes, 

 which are separated by the griseous vermiculated 

 space. The feathers on the flanks, and those of the 

 inner surface of the tail, resemble those on the top 

 of the rump, but are of a deeper green, and the 

 golden hue is more rufous : the lesser wing-coverts 

 are of a beautiful emerald-green, with a narrow band 

 of velvety-black : the secondary coverts are fine me- 

 tallic-copper with a golden gloss : the part hidden 

 is of an emerald-green, vermiculated with grey and 

 white along the covered edge : the spurious wing and 

 the primary coverts are dusky-brown, with narrow 

 oblique transverse white bands : the quills are the 

 same, but the outer margin of the inner primaries, 

 and nearly all the secondaries are white, forming a 

 longitudinal band of that colour on the wing when 

 closed : the secondaries nearest the body are brown, 

 tinged with golden-green : the wing beneath is edged 

 transversely with white and griseous-brown : the tail 

 consists of fourteen feathers, and is round at its tip : 

 it is dusky beneath, vermiculated with white : the fea- 

 thers on the thighs are dusky : the legs are rather 

 more elevated and stronger than in the common 

 species, and the spurs on the tarsi are also stronger 

 and sharper j their colour appears to have been red. 



