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G. Gula membrana penduld • gence orbitceque pennis tectae ; 



caput maris cornibus geminis armatum. 

 C. Throat with a pendulous membrane; the cheeks and orbits 



covered with feathers ; the head of the male armed with a 



double horn. 



HORNED PHEASANT. 

 (Phasianus cornutus.) 



Ph. Jiisco riifescens, ocellis albis nigro circumdatis, capite cornu 



gemino caruleo, gidture membrana penduld. 

 Red-brown Pheasant, with white ocelli, ringed with black ; the 



head with a double blue horn ; the throat with a pendulous 



membrane. 

 Phasianus cornutus. Briss. Orn. App. 14. 

 Phasianus Satyrus. Temm. Gall. Ind. 672. 

 Meleagris Satyra. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 269. 3.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 619. 



Penelope Satyra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 733. 1. 

 Le Faisan cornu, ou Napal. Buff. Ois. 2. 362.' — Temm. Pig. <ft 

 Gall. 2. 349. 



Horned Turkey. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 680. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 203. 

 Horned Pheasant. Edw. Birds. pL II6, 



This rare and elegant bird is thus described by 

 Latham : " Size between a Fowl and a Turkey : 

 beak brown : the nostrils, fore-part of the head, 

 and round the eyes, covered with slender, black, 

 hairy feathers : top of the head red : behind each 

 eye springs a fleshy, callous, blue substance, like a 

 horn, tending backwards : on the fore^part of the 



