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engraving of which from his drawing, may be found 
in Dr. Sharp’s edition of the Syntagma Differ?ationum 
of Dr. Thomas Hyde. 
He alio made a drawing and engraving of the Argus 
or Luetr, one of the larger fpecies of pheafant, a na¬ 
tive of the north of China , from a preferved bird tranfc 
mitted to Dr. Fothergill. The copper-plate de¬ 
signed for the philofophical translations was unfor¬ 
tunately loll ; but an impredion, coloured by the au¬ 
thor, is now in the hands of the prelent proprietor of 
liis works. He made drawings during his retirement 
at Tlaijlow of the Keftril , a ipecies of hawk found in hol¬ 
low trees, and ruined buildings in England , which the 
reader will find defcribed in the Britifli Zoology, by 
the ingenious Mr. Pennant, with whom our author 
had a long uninterrupted friendship and correfpon- 
dence: 
led a hound and tore it to pieces in a moment, notwithftanding the dog 
made a vigorous defence. 
Arabian writers call it Anak el Ard: inform us it hunts like the Panther 
and purfues Cranes in their flight. 
