NATURAL HISTORY. 
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The GOLDEN PHEASANT of CHINA. 
T HIS bird, which is Paid to excel all the 
reft in beauty, is lb prolific, that, when in 
its wiki ftate, it will lay twenty eggs, and 
upwards, being double the number they lay 
when domefticated. The plicafant, of all 
wild birds, is moft cafily fliot. 
Befides thofe already mentioned, there are 
the horned Indian, red China, white Cliina, 
peacock, and Brazilian plieafants. 
The BUSTARD,. 
J S the largeft native land bh’d of Britain; the 
male generally weighing twenty-five pounds. 
It is about nine feet broad, and four feet 
long. The head and neck are of an afh-co* 
lour, and the back is barred tranfverfly with 
black, bright, and raft colour: the greater 
quill feathers are black; thofe on the belly 
are white; the tail, which co-nfifts of twenty 
feathers, has broad red and black ftripes ; and 
the legs arc of a duflcy hue. 
The female is about half the fize of the 
male. Ty||y 'were formerly much more nu- 
merous tmWi at prefent ; but the increafed 
cultivation of the country,, added to the ex- 
treme delicacy of its ficfli, has caufed a great 
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