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If the above cafe is worthy of your mature re- 
flexions, it will be a great fatisfadion to, 
S 1 R, 
Your mofl humble fervant, 
Tho. Woollcombe. 
XIV. A Defrciption of a beautiful Chinefe 
P Leaf ant ; the Feathers and Drawing of 
which were fe?tt jf'om Canton to John 
Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S, By Mr, 
George Edwards, F, R. S, 
Read March 7, 
1765. 
HE Argus is a fpecies of the 
pheafant, the largeft of that genus 
yet known, being equal in fize to a full-grown tur- 
key-cock, from one of the mofl; northern provinces 
of China. I take it to be a male bird, by the beauty- 
ful red ikin ou the fore- part of the head, and its fine 
blue changeable crefi: and neck j the females of all 
the different fpecies of pheafants yet difcovered having 
little or no gaudy colours about their heads. 
The beak is made like that of our pheafant, of a 
yellowilli-white colour : the fore-part of the head, 
and the begining of the throat, is covered with a fine 
icarlet fkin, feeminglyyoid of feathers, but is 'rough 
with a kind of grain. The irides of the eyes are 
orange-coloured, more yellow next the pppil, and 
redder 
