34 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
are margined at the end with black, in the fhape 
af a heart, like fome of the feathers in the Pea- 
cock’s tail. ; 
The plumage of the hen is not nearly fo beaw- 
tiful as that of the cock, for that is richly. glofled 
tion of the eye. : \ 
The tail is compofed of ree laa the 
two middlemoft are the longeft, and the toes ate 
joined by a membrane, which is larger than ts 
wal with thofe birds whe throw duft among 
their feathers. 
~The Pheafant receives its name from the place 
where it was firft found. Some Greeks, called: 
_Argonauts, who were failing up the river Phafis, 
in order to-arrive at Colchis (which is in Afia 
trful birds, and brought them into Greece, (which 
is now Turkey in Europe.) 
The Pheafants of that country, and of Min- 
grelia, are the largeft and the moft beautiful that 
are known: they are now diftributed almoft | 
over the world, many are wild in Great Britain,. 
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particularly in the county of Norfolk. 
They delight in. woods, in low fituations ; they ; 
rooft on the tops of trees, with their heads under : 
ene of their: ‘wings. 
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with colours that feem to change with the Gtua- 3 
. Minor, of Turkey in Afia,) firit faw thefe beau~ 
