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PENCILLED PHEASANT. 



males being more brilliant in colour ; and in the 

 third year the plumage attains its utmost brilliancy. 

 Old females sometimes put on the plumage of 

 the males, like many other gallinaceous birds, but 

 this is rare : they will also breed with the com- 

 mon Pheasant, as has been already noticed in the 

 account of that bird. 



PENCILLED PHEASANT. 

 (Phasianus Nycthemerus.) 



Pn. albus 'j crista^ guld, pectore, abdomineque nigro^violaceo ; 

 Cauda cuneata, compressd, (Femina fmcescens,fu8co undulata^ 

 rectricibus lateralibus albo nigroque maculatis, ) 



White Pheasant, with the crest, throat, breast, and abdomen, 

 dark violet j the tail wedge-shaped and compressed. (Female 

 brownish, waved with brown j the lateral tail-feathers spot- 

 ted with black and white. ) 



Phasianus Nycthemerus. Linn, Syst. Nat, 1. 272. — Gmel, Syst» 

 Nat, 1. 743. Q,—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 631. Gall, 

 Ind.p. 665. 



Phasianus albus Sinensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 276. 5. 



Faisan noir et blanc, ou le bicolor. Buff. Ois, 2, 359.— 



PI. Enl, 123. male, 124. female. — Temm. Pig. et Gall, 2. p, 



281.pl. 2.f. 6. 7. 

 Black and white Pheasant. Albin, Birds. 3. ZJ.'—Edw. Birds, 



pi, 66. 



Pencilled Pheasant. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 7 19. 



The male of this species is nearly three feet in 

 length : the beak and irides yellow : sides of the 



