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A breed between the Pheafant and the com- 
mon Hen has been procured, and it is faid that 
they are a more delicate food than the true bred 
Pheafant. 
Sometimes the, hen Pheafant, like the Pea- 
hen, when it is old, and has done laying, will get 
the plumage of the male. 
In an ifland in the Laggo Maggiore, in Mi- 
lan, the Pheafgnts are compleatly imprifoned, 
their flight is too heavy and fhort to allow of 
their pafling over the lake; when they attempt 
it, they fallon the water, and if not taken up 
are drowned. 
_ There are feveral varieties of the common 
Pheafant, 
One called the Ring Pheafant ; it has a ring 
of pure white round the neck, and is found in 
fome of the provinces of China, in Great ‘Tar- 
tary, near the Cafpian fea, the rivers Don and 
Wolga, and in the ifland of St. Helena. 
Another variety is wholly white. 
The Turkey Pheafant is faid to be peculiar to 
the ifland of Java, the plumage feems to be a 
mixture of that of the Turkey and of the Phea-- 
fant; it has a bare red {kin round the eyes, 
The 
