HORNED INDIAN PHEASANT. 
der black feathers, resembling short hairs. 
The top of the head is red. From above each 
eye, tending backward, as shewn in the figurCy 
springs a horn, of a callous, fleshy substance, 
round in shape, of a fine blue colour, andend-^ 
ing with a bluntish point. From the lower 
mandible of the bill, hangs a flap of loose 
skin down the fore-part of the neck, of an ex- 
ceeding fine blue colour, with spots and marks 
of orange-colour on it: bare of feathers on 
the upper side j but the under side, which is de- 
tached from the neck, is covered with small 
black feathers, as is that part of the neck that 
is covered by it. Without-side of this flap, 
down it's middle, is another loose black skin ;. 
joined to it, as it were, by it's ecge only, and 
thinly beset with black Iiairs. This skin is of 
a wrinkled and soft texture; and, I believe,, 
the bird may be capable of dilating or con- 
tra dting it at pleasure, after the manner of the 
Turkey-Cock. The figure must help my de- 
scription ; the head of this bird being different 
from any tiling I have met with. The neck 
and breast are of a full red, inclining to orange : 
a little black is intermixed on the neck behind. 
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