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BIRDS, GALLING. 71. Phafianus. 
from the ground and fiiews the chicken ; is 
geous, proud, watchful and iiilacious, and claps its 
fore it fings or crows ; has a piercing fight, and nevff ft 
cry in a peculiar note at the light of a bird of ^ 
hen, if fire have plenty of food, water, gravel and * 
neft will lay through the whole year, and after 
a loud clucking which is anfweied by all the 
hearing ; will not fit if flie be immcvlcd in cold 
hurt by elder-berries, and fubjefl to Hee, which are de 
by pepper. i”' 
Body, when wild, Icfs than the common cock ; comb to 
dented, fhining rod; tempki and line from the 
eyes naked, fielh-colour; behind the ever a clay-CO'^l'jiifrS' 
of the lhape of a man’s nail, and covered with Ihort 
feathers, of the reft of the /irsflf anil long, 
at the bale, black in the middle and tipt with "hif*^ ’. , 
of the upper part of tlie body greyilh, with a ''' 
black ftreak ; brciijl rcddifti ; gt'Cater zvin^-coi'Cct^ ^ 
cheliiut, with tnnfvcrfc black and white ftreaks ; ^ [jf?' 
glolly-violct ; middle tail-Jcathtrs long, falcate j JP 
curved. ^ gr<?'’ 
Female without the com!) and wattles ; head and j „;il' 
checks and chin wliitifli ; body more dulky and vari'- 
brown, grey and rufous ; Jpur p. 
Variiis. Black ; front rod ; neck and back glolfy-grcen ; ijd^' 
prell’ed, afeending, the coverts hanging down * 
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Inhabits India ? lefs than the common cock. Kat. jiil®* 
Carvncle includes the eyes and is continued ''fi 
plain comb, and dowiwards into an obfeurely dh'' 
tic ; feathers of the neck and upper part of the bdok 
lo as to refcmble a kind of fcales or fhells ; leffer 
black, lanceolate, deeply edged with bright orangf') |,^tl' 
tail-coverts (lied each fide, long, iianow, pointed, h 
edges oclrrc ; bill and legs yellowifli. 
rdl”' 
IfTiiitus, 
Motmit. 
Black, with a fteel-blue glofs, fides rufous ; 
the back fiery-ferruginous ; 2 middle tail-fc^^^‘;L;j''' 
lowilh-brown. 
Inhabits Java ; fize of a fowl. 
Staunton's Chino-i 
Fire-ip. 
Brown, beneath reddilh ; tail wedged, the lateral^*//; 
rufous. ^ 
