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A breed between the Pheafant and the com- 
mon Hen has been procured, and it 1s faid that — 
_— they are a more delicate food than the true bred 
4 Pheafant. | | 
‘Sometimes the hen Pheafanty like the Pea: 
hen, when it is old, and has done Byings will get 
the plumage of the male. 
In an ifland in the Laggo Maggiore, in Mi- 
lan, the Pheafants are compleatly imprifoned, 
their flight is too heavy and fhort to allow of 
their pafling over the lake; when they attempt 
it, they fall on the water, and if not taken up 
are drowned. 
There are feveral varieties of the common 
Pheafant. 
One called the Ring Pheatant ; it sie 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 
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7 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. 
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