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‘The Black and White Chinese Cock Pheasant, with its Hen,^ 
T H E Cock is confiderably larger than our common Cock Pheafant , but ihaped' 
much like it. 
The Bill is like a Cock or Hen'Sj of a Yellow Colour^ and dusky towards the Point y. 
the Eyes are alfo yellow, encompafled with a very broad Space of a fine Scarlet, bare 
of Feathers, but thinly fprinkled with Hairs, which rife in the upper Part on each 
Side in the Form of Horns, and extend backward in a Point on each Side of the Head,, 
and on the Cheeks hang down like the Gills of a Cock : The Top of the Head from 
the Bill backward is covered with long black Feathers, having a Purple Glofs, which 
hang down its Neck behind; the upper Part, viz. the Sides of the Head, upper Side 
of the Neck, Back, Wings, and Tail, are covered with white Feathers, each having- 
three or four fine black Lines running one within an other, parallel to the outer Cii- 
cumference of the Feathers, as expreffed in the Figure,, except the greater Qmll Fea- 
thers, and the outer Feathers of the Tail, which have oblique Bars and Dafiies of Black,, 
as the Figure likewife exprefleth; the two upper Feathers of the Tail are white; the 
under Side, from the Bill to the Coverts beneath the Tail, is Black, with a Purple 
Glofs, narrow on the Throat, but increafing in its Weadth to the Bread: and Belly; the 
Legs and Feet are of a fine Scarlet Colour, and it hath Spurs like the common Cock^. 
of a white Colour, 
The Hen is fomething lels than the Cock, her Bill of a yellowifh Brown, as are- 
her Eyes, with a bare red Space about them, as in the Cock, but not nigh fo broad;, 
the Crown of the Head is covered with dark-brown Feathers, hanging a little down 
behind; the Throat, and Sides of the Head beneath the red Space, is whitifh ; all the 
Neck, Bread:, Back, Wings, and middle Feathers of the Tail, are of a reddidi Brown,, 
except the greater. Quills, which incline to dulky, and thofe next the Body powdered 
with Black ; the Belly and Side Feathers of the Tail are of a dirty White, tranfverlly,, 
but fomething confufedly mixed with Dufky or Black the Legs and Feet are red, as- 
in the Cock,., but not fo bright, nor hath it any Spurs. 
Thefe curious Birds were kept many Years by Sir Hans Sloane at his Houfe in 
London^ where they hatched young ones, and brought them to Maturity.. The Cock of 
this Bird hath been figured and deferibed by Albin^ in his Hiilory of Birds, VoL IIL 
Fag. 35. but as I have made fome Corredions both in the Figure and Defeription, 
and have added to it the Hen, which is there wanting I hope the Curious will not 
think my Labour lofi:. Albin hath given his a Tail much too fliort, and hath been 
no Way precife in figuring the red Space round the Eye; nor hath he mentioned or- 
figured the curious particular Marks on the white Feathers ; and the Spurs he hath 
alfo omitted. ’Tis probable he only faw this Bird in a Yard walking, and took his^ 
Sketch from it there, fo could not be fo particular as I had Opportunity to be, thefe' 
Birds being the Property of my good Patron, whofe Houfe I frequented, and had Op- 
portunity often to repair my Draughts, by flridtly examining them in their mi- 
nute Parts, not only while they were living, but after they were dead^. 
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