HORNED INDIAN PHEASANT. 
The Napaul, or Horned Pheasant, is so 
called," continues Buffon, " because of tv/o 
protuberances which grow from it's head like j 
horns, are of a blue colour, a cylindrical 
shape, blunt at their ends, reclined backwards, 
and consist of a substance resembling callous 
flesh. It has not that round circle about it's, 
eyes which occurs in the Pheasants, and is 
sometimes dotted with black ; the space which 
surrounds the eyes is shaded with black hair 
like feathers. Under this space, and from the 
bottom of the lower mandible, grows a kind 
of gorget consisting of loose skin, which falls 
down and floats freely on the throat and the 
upper part of the neck: this gorget is black in 
the middle, and is sprinkled with a few strag- 
gling hairs of the same colour. It is marked 
with wrinkles ; so that it appears to admit of 
extension in the living animal, and there is 
reason to suppose that it can be inflated or 
contradted at pleasure. The lateral parts are 
blue, with some spots of orange, and without 
any hair on the outer surface ; but the inside, 
which applies to the neck, is shaded with little 
black feathers, as well as that part of the neck ' 
which 
