PAIxNTED PHEASANT. 



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the young are much more difficult to rear : there 

 is also a great disparity in the eggs of the two 

 species, those of the present one being blue or 

 bluish green, marked with small spots of a deeper 

 tint ; whereas those of the common Pheasant are 

 whitish olive, without spots. They are said to be 

 common at St. Helena, having been introduced 

 there by the governor, and a heavy penalty is 

 attached to any person that shoots one. 



b. Caput crista instructum. 

 Head furnished with a crest. 



PAINTED PHEASANT. 

 (Phasianus pictus.) 



Ph. crista flava, occipitis penfiis Juscis lineis nigris variis ; cor- 



pore supra flano-aureoj subtus coccineo ; remigibus secundariis 



C(Eruleis, cauda cuneatd. 

 Pheasant with a yellow crest ; the feathers of the occiput brown, 



varied with black lines ; the body above golden-yellow, 



beneath scarlet ; the secondary quills blue j the tail wedged. 

 Phasianus pictus. Linn, Si/st. Nat. 1. 272. 5. — Gmel. Syst. NaU 



1. 7^^'— Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 630. 5.—'Temm. Gall. Ind. 671. 

 Phasianus aureus Sinensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 271. 4. 

 Faisan dore, ou tricolor de la Chine. Buff". Ois. 2. 355. — Temm. 



Pig. et Gall. 2. 34l.'-Buff. PI. Enl. 217- 

 Painted Pheasant. Edw. Birds, pi. 68. 69. — .^Ibin. Birds. 3. pi. 



36. — Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi. 22. — Latlu Gen. Syn. 4. 7^7' ^- 



