RING PHEASANT. MALE. 
The subject of this plate was reared in this Menagery, and although, 
these birds were formerly considered as very rare and valuable, there is 
every reason to believe, that in a short time they might become as abun- 
dant as the common Pheasants, from which they differ, in having a ring of 
a fine white colour round the neck, and also in having the colour of the 
plumage, particularly the feathers of the lower part of the neck and breast, 
more distinct, and more deeply indented, each feather appearing double at 
the extremity. 
The bill is horn colour ; the irides. are yellow ; the sides of the head, 
like that of the common Pheasant, are covered with a bright crimson carun- 
culated bare skin , sprinkled with minute black spots, forming a point be- 
hind the eye, and stretching like the wattle of a Cock over each jaw. 
But the most remarkable trait in its appearance is, two tufts of feathers, 
which in the breeding season rise on each side above the ears, and turning 
upwards, appear like two horns. 
It is needless to give a particular description of the colours of the 
plumage, which very much resemble that of the common Pheasant, and is 
faithfully pourtrayed in the plate. Its size is that of a domestic fowl, 
measuring from two feet six inches to three feet, of which the tail is twenty 
inches long, consisting of eighteen feathers, the longest of which aie twenty 
inches, the shortest not five, all having transverse bars of black on each 
side of the shaft, the two middle feathers having twenty -four, in some 
niore; but the opinion that the age may be discovered from the numbei of 
crossbars on the tail, is certainly erroneous* 
