PENCILLED CHINESE PHEASANT. 
FEMALE. 
The female is smaller than the male, and differs from him in colour. 
The bill is horn colour. She has a small tuft of brown feathers, inclining 
to dull purple, hanging down behind, forming a crest. The eye is yellow, 
and surrounded by a red skin, which is not so broad or so splendid as 
that of the male. 
1 he throat, the breast, the belly, and thighs are pale brown, shaded with 
rufous brown, and marked with irregular transverse bars of different shades 
of rufous. 
The hind part of the neck, the back, the coverts of the wings and tail, 
are brown tinged with glossy rufous. The two middle feathers of the tail 
are the same brown, inclining to rufous; the others dull white tinged with 
brown, and striped with transverse bars of black. The legs the same as the 
male, but without the spur. 
I hey are natives of China, are now very common with us, breed in our 
menageries, and are perfectly inured to our climate. 
Bulfcn supposes the White Pheasant to be a native of cold climates, as 
that of Tartary, and having migrated into the northern provinces of China, 
has there found a greater plenty of food, more congenial to its nature, so 
mat u ias glow., to a large 5K e, and is at length become the Pencilled 
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