THE 
VARIEGATED PHEASANT. 
Generic Character. 
Bill fhort and flout. 
Cheeks covered by a fmooth naked (kin. 
JLegs in rnofl fpecies furnifhed with fpurs. 
Specific Character. 
Black PHEASANT, with red front, gloidy-green 
neck and back, and compreffed-afcending 
tail with the coverts hanging down on each 
fide. 
This beautiful bird feems to be a non-defcript, of 
which the prefent figure is the fir ft that has been 
prefented to the public. Its natural fize is fome- 
what inferior to that of a common Cock, and the 
habit or fhape of the body is more flender in pro¬ 
portion. The carunculated or red part in front 
takes in the eyes, and is continued upwards into a 
kind of plain comb orcreft, and downwards into an 
obfeurely-divided wattle or flap. The feathers of 
the neck and upper part of the back are fo fhaped 
and difpofed as to referable a kind of feales or fhells : 
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