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Hen Peacock Pheasant, from China. 
T his Bird, reprefented by the upper Figure, is a third Part lefs than the Cockj 
defcribed Page 67. but agrees with it in Colour and Marks more than any 
Birds of the Pheafant Kind I have yet obferved, it having all its Marks, tho’ much duller. 
The Bill is of a Dufky or Black Colour; the Iris of the Eye is Yellow ; the Plumage 
of the whole Bird is of an obfcure Brown j the lower Part of the Back, and all the Tail 
Feathers a little mixed and powder’d with darker and fome lighter Brown ; all the Covert 
Feathers of the Wings, upper Part of the Back, and the Quills next the Back, have each 
a round Spot of dark Blue near their Tips, the Tips themfelves being of a dirty Orange- 
colour, or reddilh Brov/n j the Tail Feathers have each of them toward their Tips two 
Spots of dull dark Blue j all the Spots want that fliining Lufhre which Is fo remarkable 
in the Cock; the Legs and Feet are of a dark Brown, or blackilh Colour; and it hath no 
Spurs. 
The Hen of the Painted Pheafant from China (fee the Cock in Plate 68.) the lower 
Figure in this Print reprefents, which differs more widely from the Cock than any of 
the Pheafant Kind I am acquainted with; that being a Mixture of the mofl: gay Colours 
that can be imagined, and the Hen of the moft common uniform Colour, v/ith hardly 
any Marks of Diflinftion : Its Bill Is Yellow j the Eye of a yellowifli Hazel Colour, en- 
compaffed with a Space of dufky Feathers; the Crown of the Head is cover’d with red- 
difh brown Feathers, and hath fome Appearance ofaCrefl; the upper Side of the Neck, 
Back, Wings, and Tail, are of a reddifh Brown Colour; the Feathers juft beneath the 
Bill are White j the Throat, Breaft, and Belly, are of a light yellowifli Brown, fpotted 
with darker brown Spots, as expreffed in the Figure; the Ridges of the Wings on the 
upper Parts are of a whitifh Colour; the Legs and Feet are Yellow. 
The Bird firft defcribed in this Page I faw with its Male at Dr. Monroe'z In London^ 
where I drew them both: The Doctor had great Hopes of breeding from thefe rare Birds, 
and had made a very convenient Place for them at his Houfe In Croydon^ near London ; 
but the Hen dying before he had long pofleffed them, he was difappointed in his Ex- 
pedlation. 
The fecond Bird defcribed In this Page, I muft confefs to be on a weaker Authority 
than any in this Work, having never feen the Bird ; but as I have three Sorts of Chinefe 
Cock Pheafajits^ and the Hens of two of them, I was willing to compleat their Hiftory 
in the beft Manner I could ; and having Opportunity to examine feveral very curious 
high-finifhed Chinefe Pidtures of the Painted Pheafant drawn together with its Hen, and 
finding the Cocks to compare very exadtly with Nature, I fuppofed the Hens to be as 
like their Originals as the Cocks, fince the Hens agree in Colour with one another, tho’ 
they are done by different Hands, and were brought to England at far diftant Times; 
therefore I think It very probable that the lower figure In the annexed Plate may be as 
like the Bird as if I had taken it from Nature itfelf; fome of my Friends, who have feen 
this Bird in England^ fay it is, to the beft of their Memory, like the Bird. 
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