THE BARRED-TAILED PHEASANT. 
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allied to give a figure aud more detailed account ; 
the former has now served for the accompanying il- 
lustration. It appears to be extremely rare in 
China, and to be brought from the confines of the em- 
pire to Pekin, where it is kept in the menageries of 
the most wealthy. Temminck is also of opinion 
that their exportation is prohibited under a severe 
penalty. The most remarkable feature in this bud 
is the extraordinary and disproportional length of 
the tail. Temminck gives the length of the longest 
feather as above four feet, while Dr Latham remarks, 
“ Some years since, I had an opportunity of seeing 
a bundle of thirty or forty of these tail feathers, 
which were brought from China : I found among 
them every length from more than seven feet to 
eighteen inches.” The body of the bird is about 
the size of the Silver Pheasant of our Plate XVIII. 
A small portion round the eye is bare of feathers, and 
is red. The head is covered with a cowl of white, 
surrounded by a narrow band of black, broadest to- 
wards the ears. Two white collars cover the neck, 
and are broadest on the fore part ; the first stretches 
from the base of the bill upon the throat, the second 
spreads upon the breast. The back of the neck, 
back, and rump, are covered with feathers, in the 
form of scales, of a rich and brilliant golden-yellow, 
and terminated at the extremity by a narrow band 
of black ; the plumes of the breast and lower parts 
are of a shining white, covered by two irregular 
bands of deep black, and tipped with a band of 
